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Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with childhood febrile seizure
Author(s) -
AsadiPooya A. A.,
Nei M.,
Rostami C.,
Sperling M. R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/ane.12566
Subject(s) - epilepsy , temporal lobe , pathological , medicine , epilepsy surgery , hippocampal sclerosis , retrospective cohort study , anterior temporal lobectomy , pediatrics , drug resistant epilepsy , surgery , psychiatry
Objectives To evaluate the demographic and clinical manifestations of patients with mesial temporal sclerosis and temporal lobe epilepsy ( MTS ‐ TLE ) with childhood febrile seizure ( FS ) and establishing the potential differences as compared to those without FS . We also investigated the surgery outcome in these two groups of patients. Materials and methods In this retrospective study, all patients with a clinical diagnosis of drug‐resistant TLE due to mesial temporal sclerosis, who underwent epilepsy surgery at Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, were recruited. Patients were prospectively registered in a database from 1986 through 2014. Postsurgical outcome was classified into two groups; seizure‐free or relapsed. Clinical manifestations and outcome were compared between patients with MTS ‐ TLE with FS and those without FS . Results Two hundred and sixty‐two patients were eligible for this study. One hundred and seventy patients (64.9%) did not have FS in their childhood, while 92 patients (35.1%) reported experiencing FS in their childhood. Demographic and clinical characteristics of these two groups of patients were not different. Postoperative seizure outcome was not statistically different between these two groups of patients ( P = 0.19). Conclusions When MTS is the pathological substrate of TLE , clinical manifestations and response to surgical treatment of patients are very similar in patients with history of febrile seizure in their childhood compared to those without such an experience. In other words, when the subgroup of patients with MTS ‐ TLE and drug‐resistant seizures is examined history of childhood febrile seizure loses its value as a distinguishing factor in characteristics or predictive factor for surgery outcome.