Abstract:
:Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PVNH) is a neuronal migrational disorder often associated with pharmacoresistant epilepsy (PRE). Resective surgery for PVNH is limited by its deep location, and the overlying eloquent cortex or white matter. Stereotactic MR guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) has recently become available for controlled focal ablation, enabling us to target these lesions. We here demonstrate the novel application and techniques for the use of MRgLITT in the management of PVNH epilepsy. Comprehensive presurgical evaluation, including intracranial EEG monitoring in two patients revealed the PVNH to be crucially involved in their PRE. We used MRgLITT to maximally ablate the PVNH in both cases. In the first case, seizure medication adjustment coupled with PVNH ablation, and in the second, PVNH ablation in addition to temporal lobectomy rendered the patient seizure free. A transient visual deficit occurred following ablation in the second patient. MRgLITT is a promising minimally invasive technique for ablation of epileptogenic PVNH, a disease not generally viewed as surgically treatable epilepsy. We also show here the feasibility of applying this technique through multiple trajectories and to create lesions of complex shapes. The broad applicability and long term efficacy of MRgLITT need to be elaborated further.
journal_name
Epilepsy Resjournal_title
Epilepsy researchauthors
Esquenazi Y,Kalamangalam GP,Slater JD,Knowlton RC,Friedman E,Morris SA,Shetty A,Gowda A,Tandon Ndoi
10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.01.009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-03-01 00:00:00pages
547-54issue
3eissn
0920-1211issn
1872-6844pii
S0920-1211(14)00022-9journal_volume
108pub_type
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.02.006
更新日期:2006-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.11.006
更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2003-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0920-1211(87)90021-0
更新日期:1987-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.12.013
更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.01.010
更新日期:2011-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0920-1211(92)90039-v
更新日期:1992-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2009.12.005
更新日期:2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.12.002
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.07.003
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.03.006
更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.11.015
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2020.106427
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0920-1211(93)90080-q
更新日期:1993-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.08.025
更新日期:2016-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2005.08.005
更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The ketogenic diet (KD) remains a therapy in search of explanation although it is an established treatment of intractable epilepsy. Recent studies suggest that the KD may be both anticonvulsant and antiepileptogenic. Epileptic seizures have been shown to stimulate the proliferation rate of neuronal progenitor cells in...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.11.010
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2018.04.001
更新日期:2018-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2018.06.016
更新日期:2018-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0920-1211(97)00083-1
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2004.10.003
更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0920-1211(90)90018-q
更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Novel treatments for epilepsy are necessary because many epilepsy patients are resistant to medication. Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), specifically mGluR 2 and 3, may serve as antiepileptic drug targets because of their role in controlling synaptic release. In this study, we administered a Group 2 mGluR ag...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.10.009
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Weak relationships have been reported between subjective complaints of memory deficits and memory performance in neuropsychological tests in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). This study investigated whether the individual exposure to cognitive demands in daily life contributes to cancel out the performance-c...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0920-1211(98)00072-2
更新日期:1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Developmental changes of transport of drugs into the brain play an important role in ontogenetic neuropharmacology. Two convulsant drugs with different mechanisms of action (glutamate and bicuculline methiodide) were chosen to demonstrate these changes in developing rats. High dose of glutamate (4 g/kg i.p.) induced b...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0920-1211(00)00179-0
更新日期:2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is difficult to diagnose but is an important cause of cognitive impairment. Electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring is required for diagnosis and treatment. Little is known regarding the stability of subclinical epileptiform discharges (SEDs) preceding NCSE nor what strategies may...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0920-1211(02)00107-9
更新日期:2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Interictal blood flow single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been considered to be of limited value in the investigation of patients with partial epilepsies. Newer SPECT technologies using brain dedicated multiple detector systems have not been fully evaluated. To study the usefulness of an optimized S...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0920-1211(95)00020-b
更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Seletracetam (SEL), an analog of the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam (LEV), decreases seizure activity in a number of epilepsy models and binds to the synaptic vesicle protein SV2A with a higher affinity than LEV. Experiments were performed to determine if SEL, like LEV, reduces the later EPSPs in long trains of stim...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2015.08.006
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Secondarily generalized convulsive status epilepticus was induced by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of D,L-homocysteine thiolactone to rats with actively epileptogenic cobalt lesions in motor cortex. This induced focal motor seizures which secondarily generalized. Control animals not treated with antiepileptic drugs...
journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0920-1211(88)90023-x
更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Epilepsy research
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2015.06.017
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00