在儿童癫痫手术的目的是辊筒y to control seizures but also to curtail future adverse neurological sequelae and improve quality of life. If presurgical evaluation demonstrates discordant or multifocal disease, intracranial surgery may be denied as a viable treatment option. When surgical therapy is offered not just as curative but also as palliative therapy, many children not considered optimal surgical candidates may benefit. From a consecutive series of 57 cases involving children who underwent intracranial epilepsy surgery at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital during 2001–2005, the authors present in detail 3 cases involving children who benefited significantly from such an aggressive approach. Marked improvement occurred not only in seizure control, but also in developmental and social functioning.
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Andrew T. Hale, Dagoberto Estevez-Ordonez, Jana Badrani, Wen Sha, Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith, Monisha Goyal, Ismail Mohamed, Pongkiat Kankirawatana, Curtis J. Rozzelle, and Jeffrey P. Blount
OBJECTIVE
Hemispherectomy is highly effective for patients with medically refractory epilepsy (MRE) arising from a single hemisphere. Recently, the Hemispherectomy Outcome Prediction Scale (HOPS) was developed as a prediction tool for seizure freedom after hemispherectomy. The authors’ goal was to perform a validation study to determine the generalizability of the HOPS score.
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aut的hors present an observational, retrospective, 20-year, single-institution, two-surgeon experience using the lateral peri-insular hemispherectomy approach to validate the HOPS score. Variables used to derive the HOPS score included seizure onset age, semiology, PET hypometabolism, seizure substrate, and history of prior epilepsy resection. Multivariable logistic regression, multiple imputation, and Bayesian analyses were used to determine validity.
RESULTS
aut的hors’ cohort comprised 60 patients; 55% of patients were male and 78% were Caucasian. The median age at first hemispherectomy surgery was 72 months. At 1 year postoperatively, 80% of patients had Engel class I outcomes, analogous to most contemporary series. All patients who experienced seizure recurrence after hemispherectomy did so within the first 2 years postoperatively. Sixteen (27%) and 10 (17%) patients had contralateral MRI findings and hypometabolism on PET, respectively. Both a multivariable logistic regression model using HOPS score variables (model p = 0.2588) and a revised model that included contralateral MRI findings (model p = 0.4715) were not statistically significant in this cohort. Bayesian analysis also did not validate the HOPS score.
CONCLUSIONS
While seizure outcome prediction tools may be helpful for counseling patients about postoperative outcomes, rigorous validity and reliability testing are required. Prospective, standardized, and longitudinal evaluation of patients undergoing hemispherectomy are needed.
Pongkiat Kankirawatana, Ismail S. Mohamed, Jason Lauer, Inmaculada Aban, Hyunmi Kim, Rong Li, Allan Harrison, AS, Monisha Goyal, Curtis J. Rozzelle, Robert Knowlton, and Jeffrey P. Blount
OBJECTIVE
The goal of this study was to evaluate the predictive value and relative contribution of noninvasive presurgical functional imaging modalities based on the authors’ institutional experience in pursuing seizure-free surgical outcomes in children with medically refractory epilepsy.
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这是一个回顾,obse单一机构rvational cohort study of pediatric patients who underwent evaluation and surgical treatment for medically refractory partial epilepsy between December 2003 and June 2016. During this interval, 108 children with medically refractory partial epilepsy underwent evaluation for localization and resective epilepsy surgery. Different noninvasive functional imaging modalities, including ictal SPECT, FDG-PET, and magnetoencephalography–magnetic source imaging, were utilized to augment a standardized paradigm (electroencephalography/semiology, MRI, and neuropsychology findings) for localization. Outcomes were evaluated at a minimum of 2 years (mean 7.5 years) utilizing area under the receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Localizing modalities and other clinical covariates were examined in relation to long-term surgical outcomes.
RESULTS
There was variation in the contribution of each test, and no single presurgical workup modality could singularly and reliably predict a seizure-free outcome. However, concordance of presurgical modalities yielded a high predictive value. No difference in long-term outcomes between inconclusive (normal or diffusely abnormal) and abnormal focal MRI results were found. Long-term survival analyses revealed a statistically significant association between seizure freedom and patients with focal ictal EEG, early surgical intervention, and no history of generalized convulsions.
CONCLUSIONS
Comprehensive preoperative evaluation utilizing multiple noninvasive functional imaging modalities is not redundant and can improve pediatric epilepsy surgical outcomes.
Matthew D. Smyth, David D. Limbrick Jr., Jeffrey G. Ojemann, John Zempel, Shenandoah Robinson, Donncha F. O'Brien, Russell P. Saneto, Monisha Goyal, Richard E. Appleton, Francesco T. Mangano, and Tae Sung Park
Object
aut的hors conducted a multiinstitutional, retrospective analysis to better define outcome and prognostic indicators for temporal lobe epilepsy surgery for suspected mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) in young children.
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Data were collected for all children undergoing temporal resections at four epilepsy centers over approximately 10 years. Children with a histopathological diagnosis of neoplasm were excluded.
Forty-nine patients (28 boys and 21 girls) were included in the study. Their mean age at surgery was 9.1 years (range 1.25–13.9 years). The mean age at seizure onset was 3.2 years (range birth–10 years). Histopathological examination demonstrated MTS in 26 cases, gliosis in nine, dysplasia in five, gliosis with dysplasia in four, and nonspecific or normal findings in five. Forty-one anterior temporal lobectomies (nine tailored) and eight selective amygdalohippocampectomies were performed (28 left side, 21 right side). Twenty-nine children (59.2%) underwent invasive monitoring. Operative complications included extraaxial hematomas (two cases), cerebrospinal fluid leaks (two cases), and hydrocephalus (one case), each in children undergoing invasive monitoring. The mean duration of follow up was 26.4 months (range 5–74 months) overall and 23.9 months (range 6–74 months) for the Engel Class I subgroup. Outcomes at the most recent follow-up examination were categorized as Engel Class I–II in 31 (63.3%) of 49 children overall, 20 (76.9%) of 26 children with confirmed MTS, four (36.4%) of 11 children with gliosis, and four (57.1%) of seven children with dysplasia. All patients who underwent selective amygdalohippocampectomies had confirmed MTS and Engel Class I outcomes. Patients with more than one seizure type (p = 0.048) or moderate to severe developmental delay (p = 0.03) had significantly worse outcomes (Engel Class III or IV). Age at seizure onset, age at surgery, and duration of seizure disorder were not significantly related to outcome. There was a trend for bilateral or extratemporal findings on electroencephalography (EEG) (p = 0.157), high preoperative seizure frequency (p = 0.097), and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings inconsistent with MTS (p = 0.142) to be associated with worse outcome, although it did not reach statistical significance. In only 12 (46.1%) of the 26 patients with confirmed MTS was the condition prospectively diagnosed on preoperative MR imaging.
Conclusions
Younger children with temporal lobe epilepsy have satisfying surgical outcomes, particularly when MTS is present. Magnetic resonance imaging may not be as sensitive in detecting MTS in children as in older patients. Negative predictors identified include multiple seizure types and preoperative developmental delay. Multifocal or bilateral EEG findings, high preoperative seizure frequency, and MR imaging findings inconsistent with MTS also independently suggested worse outcome.
