Childrenâs Hospital & Medical Center is also part of the nationwide study.
Pat Dettloff has struggled with epilepsy since his first big seizure â a grand mal â at age 4.
Medications worked and then didnât. In 2010, he underwent a temporal lobectomy â the removal of a portion of his brain â that is intended to reduce the seizures enough to allow medications to work again.
Pat Dettloff of Gordon, Nebraska, left, has been free of epileptic seizures for more than a year after having a laser ablation procedure at the Nebraska Medical Center. He had a follow-up appointment with Dr. Olga Taraschenko, director of the University of Nebraska Medical Centerâs comprehensive epilepsy program, earlier this month.