Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with childhood febrile seizure.

Authors

Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Maromi Nei, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Cyrus Rostami, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Michael R. Sperling, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-9-2016

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This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Epub ahead of print

The published version is available at DOI: 10.1111/ane.12566 Copyright © Wiley

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Asadi-Pooya, Ali Akbar; Nei, Maromi; Rostami, Cyrus; and Sperling, Michael R., "Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with childhood febrile seizure." (2016). Department of Neurology Faculty Papers. Paper 113.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/neurologyfp/113

PubMed ID

26861129