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The impact of epilepsy duration in a series of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy due to unilateral hippocampal sclerosis.

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PURPOSE:To evaluate if the duration of epilepsy influences MRI volumes of the hippocampus, amygdala, parahippocampal gyrus, entorhinal cortex and temporal pole of both hemispheres and epileptogenic hippocampus neuronal cell density and dentate gyrus granular cells distribution in patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE/HS). METHODS:Seventy-seven patients with refractory MTLE/HS submitted to surgery were included. Histopathological analysis included: (1) quantitative: hippocampal subfields and total estimated hippocampal cell density (HCD), thickness of the dentate gyrus - normal, thinning or dispersion; (2) qualitative: type of HS and granule cells pathology in the dentate gyrus (normal, neuronal cell loss, dispersion and bilamination). Automated MRI-derived measurements from bilateral temporal structures (hippocampus, amygdala, parahippocampal gyrus, temporal pole, entorhinal cortex) were obtained for 58 subjects. Histopathological and imaging findings were compared with data from specimens obtained in autopsies of age-matched individuals and living controls, respectively, and the data were adjusted for the age at epilepsy onset and the frequency of focal impaired awareness seizures/month. RESULTS:Forty-two (54.5%) patients presented right HS. The greater the duration of epilepsy, the smaller the total estimated HCD (p = 0.025; r = -0.259). Patients with a normal distribution of the granular cells had a shorter epilepsy duration than those with dispersion (p = 0.018) or thinning (p = 0.031). A reduced ipsilateral hippocampal volume (r = -0.551, p = 0.017) and a smaller hippocampal asymmetry index (r = -0.414, p = 0.002) were correlated to a longer epilepsy duration. The estimated HCD was correlated to the volume of the ipsilateral hippocampus (r = 0.420, p = 0.001). CONCLUSION:Our study showed an increasing atrophy of the ipsilateral hippocampus in patients with a longer epilepsy duration. Our data suggest that this reduction in hippocampal volume is related to neuronal loss. Besides that, we also showed an increased probability of exhibiting an abnormal distribution of the granular cells in the dentate gyrus in patients with longer epilepsy duration.

journal_name

Epilepsy Res

journal_title

Epilepsy research

authors

Duarte JTC,Jardim AP,Comper SM,De Marchi LR,Gaça LB,Garcia MTFC,Sandim GB,Assunção-Leme IB,Carrete H Jr,Centeno RS,Lancellotti CLP,Jackowski AP,Cavalheiro EA,Guaranha MSB,Yacubian EMT

doi

10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2018.08.009

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-01 00:00:00

pages

51-57

eissn

0920-1211

issn

1872-6844

pii

S0920-1211(17)30413-8

journal_volume

147

pub_type

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The impact of epilepsy duration in a series of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy due to unilateral hippocampal sclerosis.