Stereotactic laser ablation of epileptogenic periventricular nodular heterotopia.

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 Res

journal_title

Epilepsy research

authors

Esquenazi Y,Kalamangalam GP,Slater JD,Knowlton RC,Friedman E,Morris SA,Shetty A,Gowda A,Tandon N

doi

10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.01.009

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-03-01 00:00:00

pages

547-54

issue

3

eissn

0920-1211

issn

1872-6844

pii

S0920-1211(14)00022-9

journal_volume

108

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