St. Peter's Hospital actively treats intractable epilepsy
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St. Peter's Hospital actively treats intractable epilepsy
By Jung Yun-sik Approved 2026.05.08 13:07 Comments 0
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Some 680 video-EEG studies and more, within a year of the Epilepsy & Sleep Center opening
Hong Seung-bong, Director of the Epilepsy & Sleep Center at St. Peter's Hospital. (Courtesy of St. Peter's Hospital).
Hong Seung-bong, Director of the Epilepsy & Sleep Center at St. Peter's Hospital. (Courtesy of St. Peter's Hospital).
[Hospital News = Reporter Jung Yoon-sik] One year after opening, the Epilepsy & Sleep Center at St. Peter's Hospital (President Yoon, Kangjun) has built up a wide range of clinical results and appears to be leading the treatment of intractable epilepsy and sleep disorders in Korea.
St. Peter's Hospital announced on 7 May that its Epilepsy & Sleep Center, which opened in April last year with the goal of building a ‘fast track for specialized epilepsy treatment’, had successfully performed some 680 video EEG studies, 300 sleep studies and more than 40 epilepsy operations over the past year.
St. Peter's Hospital calls this an exceptional and unrivaled achievement for a single center, given that around 150 epilepsy operations are performed nationwide each year.
Led by Director Hong, Seung-bong (Neurology), who serves as President of the Korean Society of Epilepsy Centers and head of the Epilepsy Support Center, and by President Yoon, Kangjun (Neurosurgery), the center operates a one-stop care system that connects testing, admission, surgery and treatment seamlessly.
In addition, in April this year the hospital expanded its video EEG and sleep study rooms to seven and introduced world-class advanced testing equipment including Cadwell and Natus NDX systems.
Six dedicated EEG and sleep study technologists are also on site around the clock in three shifts, making it possible to test patients during their usual sleeping hours.
St. Peter's Hospital has also introduced an ‘open sharing system’ that, when other hospitals and clinics refer patients for video EEG and sleep studies, rapidly links same-day admission, testing and the sharing of results.
Since last year St. Peter's Hospital has been the only institution in Korea taking part in the temporal lobe epilepsy gene therapy clinical trial led by Professor Kang Jun of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States, and from this July it plans to begin laser epilepsy surgery (LITT) in earnest in Korea in collaboration with the team of Professor Junming at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University in China.
The hospital is also carrying out patient support activities, covering caregiving costs for video EEG studies for low-income epilepsy patients and actively operating a 60 million won fund to help pay for surgery for patients with intractable epilepsy.
Director Hong, Seung-bong set out his aims, saying, “The center's top priority is to close the chronic gaps in epilepsy care in Korea and dramatically improve access to treatment,” and “We will make sure that patients with intractable epilepsy are examined and treated in the shortest possible time, and provide a complete reading system in which patients with sleep disorders can be tested comfortably, following their own habits.”
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Some 680 video-EEG studies and more, within a year of the Epilepsy & Sleep Center opening
Hong Seung-bong, Director of the Epilepsy & Sleep Center at St. Peter's Hospital. (Courtesy of St. Peter's Hospital).
Hong Seung-bong, Director of the Epilepsy & Sleep Center at St. Peter's Hospital. (Courtesy of St. Peter's Hospital).
[Hospital News = Reporter Jung Yoon-sik] One year after opening, the Epilepsy & Sleep Center at St. Peter's Hospital (President Yoon, Kangjun) has built up a wide range of clinical results and appears to be leading the treatment of intractable epilepsy and sleep disorders in Korea.
St. Peter's Hospital announced on 7 May that its Epilepsy & Sleep Center, which opened in April last year with the goal of building a ‘fast track for specialized epilepsy treatment’, had successfully performed some 680 video EEG studies, 300 sleep studies and more than 40 epilepsy operations over the past year.
St. Peter's Hospital calls this an exceptional and unrivaled achievement for a single center, given that around 150 epilepsy operations are performed nationwide each year.
Led by Director Hong, Seung-bong (Neurology), who serves as President of the Korean Society of Epilepsy Centers and head of the Epilepsy Support Center, and by President Yoon, Kangjun (Neurosurgery), the center operates a one-stop care system that connects testing, admission, surgery and treatment seamlessly.
In addition, in April this year the hospital expanded its video EEG and sleep study rooms to seven and introduced world-class advanced testing equipment including Cadwell and Natus NDX systems.
Six dedicated EEG and sleep study technologists are also on site around the clock in three shifts, making it possible to test patients during their usual sleeping hours.
St. Peter's Hospital has also introduced an ‘open sharing system’ that, when other hospitals and clinics refer patients for video EEG and sleep studies, rapidly links same-day admission, testing and the sharing of results.
Since last year St. Peter's Hospital has been the only institution in Korea taking part in the temporal lobe epilepsy gene therapy clinical trial led by Professor Kang Jun of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States, and from this July it plans to begin laser epilepsy surgery (LITT) in earnest in Korea in collaboration with the team of Professor Junming at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University in China.
The hospital is also carrying out patient support activities, covering caregiving costs for video EEG studies for low-income epilepsy patients and actively operating a 60 million won fund to help pay for surgery for patients with intractable epilepsy.
Director Hong, Seung-bong set out his aims, saying, “The center's top priority is to close the chronic gaps in epilepsy care in Korea and dramatically improve access to treatment,” and “We will make sure that patients with intractable epilepsy are examined and treated in the shortest possible time, and provide a complete reading system in which patients with sleep disorders can be tested comfortably, following their own habits.”