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Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Childhood Febrile Seizure., Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya, Maromi Nei, Cyrus Rostami, Michael R. Sperling
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Childhood Febrile Seizure., Ali Akbar Asadi-Pooya, Maromi Nei, Cyrus Rostami, Michael R. Sperling
Department of Neurology Faculty Papers
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. …