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With confidence and compassion, the Oklahoma Health Center provides highly specialized and general health care for children and adults. Whether it’s world-class eye and allergy expertise, primary and tertiary care for veterans, cutting-edge research protocols, options for rare conditions or important family medicine, the courage of both patient and care givers translates to the true conviction to achieve good health. |
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Carla was suffering with 150 epileptic seizures per day. She put her trust in the Comprehensive Oklahoma Program for Epilepsy (COPE) team at OU MEDICAL CENTER’s Level IV Epilepsy Center. She learned an innovative surgical brain procedure called “cortical mapping” would be successful in supplying important information about controlling her seizures. Physicians placed a one-millimeter thick membrane grid on the surface of Carla’s brain. This grid recorded her seizures and accurately correlated the brain function in the seizure region to the corresponding body part. This cortical mapping process identified for Carla the area of the body, if any, which would be impacted if the seizure area was removed from the brain. The entire right hemisphere of Carla’s brain was removed and as predicted by the cortical mapping, had minimal effect on her capabilities. The cortical mapping procedure allowed Carla and her family to make the decision regarding a drastic surgery that ultimately resulted, to date, in a very proud seizure-free status. |
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