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Relation between ILAE hippocampal sclerosis classification and clinical findings in temporal lobe epilepsy

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Haşimoğlu, O.
Barut, O.
Kapar, M.O.
Kınay, D.
Gül, G.
Dirican, A.C.
Bilgiç, B.
Tuğcu, B.

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Aim: to investigate the relationship between clinical features and prognosis of the hippocampal sclerosis (HS) cases and International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) histopathology classification. Material and methods: a hundred patients with refractory epilepsy who were operated with the diagnosis of the Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy were included in the study. Socio-demographic characteristics, clinical and family histories, post-operative ILAE and Engel epilepsy scores and diagnostic tests were recorded. At the same time, all of the pathological specimens were classified according to the new semi-quantitative ILAE classification. A significant statistical relationship was investigated between clinical data and HS-ILAE groups. RESULTS: There were 36 male 64 female patients. The mean follow-up period was 6.5 years. 75% of the cases were HS-ILAE type 1, 19% HS-ILAE type 2, 6% were unidentifiable. FCD3A was detected in 3 patients. The HS-ILAE Type 2 ratio was high on the right-sided cases. In addition, HS-ILAE Type 1 ratio was high in patients with early seizure onset and long duration of epilepsy. There was no significant relationship between long-term ILAE and Engel epilepsy outcome scores and HS-ILAE types. Conclusion: resection of mesiotemporal structures in hippocampal sclerosis provides seizure control in at least two-thirds of cases. Histopathological findings may help us understand the epileptogenicity-prognosis of HS. The relationship between ILAE histopathology classification and clinical factors will become more obvious in the future. According to our study, there was a relationship between onset age of epilepsy, epilepsy duration, lesion side and HS-ILAE types. The reinforcement of these relationships with larger series will benefit clinicians.

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Turkish Neurosurgery

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Turkish Neurosurgical Society

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Neurosciences and neurology, Surgery

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