Visual hallucinations: A novel complication after hemispherectomy.

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2018-01

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Two patients at our center experienced florid visual hallucinations following hemispherectomy. The first patient had drug-resistant left hemispheric focal seizures at 20 months of age from a previous stroke. Following functional hemispherectomy at age 3, he experienced frightening hallucinations 1 month post-operatively lasting 3.5 months. Our second patient underwent subtotal hemispherectomy at age 6 for drug-resistant focal seizures from right hemispheric cortical dysplasia. Eighteen months later he developed scary visual hallucinations during which he would shout and throw things. Hallucinations recurred for 6 months. In our experience in these patients, even though symptoms were florid, they were transient and subsided 3-6 months later.

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Vanags, Jonas, Monisha Sachdev, Gerald Grant and Mohamad A Mikati (2018). Visual hallucinations: A novel complication after hemispherectomy. Epilepsy & behavior case reports, 9. pp. 51–53. 10.1016/j.ebcr.2017.09.005 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25900.

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Gerald Arthur Grant

Allan H. Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery

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