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Efficacy and safety of corpus callosotomy and ketogenic diet in children with Lennox Gastaut syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Source :
- Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. 37(8)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Both corpus callosotomy (CC) and the ketogenic diet (KD) are commonly used in patients with Lennox Gastaut syndrome (LGS), as a significant proportion of these patients develop pharmacoresistant epilepsy. But no systematic review has yet compared the efficacy and safety of these two measures. We conducted a systematic search on various databases to collating all available literature until 30th November 2020 with a primary objective to compare the efficacy of KD and CC in terms of the proportion of patients with complete seizure freedom, at least 75% and 50% reduction in seizure frequency at various time points after the institution of these modalities. We also attempted to compare the proportion and nature of adverse effects, impact on EEG, cognition, and behavior with these modalities. We only included original articles enrolling at least 10 patients with CC or KD for quantitative synthesis to determine a pooled estimate. We used a fixed or random effects model, depending on the degree of heterogeneity. We selected 23 and 7 articles describing the efficacy of CC and KD in 436 and 185 LGS patients out of 217 search items, but none of the studies compared directly these two entities. The indirect comparison between the pooled estimate of all patients with individual modalities revealed more patients with CC had seizure freedom, at least 75% and 50% reduction in seizure frequency (p=0.0001, 0.01, and 0.04 respectively). The proportion of patients with adverse effects was also higher for CC patients (p=0.01), although the proportion with serious adverse effects was not significantly different between the two modalities. Patients selected for CC were older, had higher seizure burden, more lag time after the onset of seizures, and received more number of antiseizure medications previously. Due to the availability of limited data, a firm conclusion could not be determined regarding the effect on EEG, cognition, and behavior with CC and KD. CC is more efficacious than KD in reducing seizure frequency in patients with LGS, although it has relatively more adverse effects during the immediate perioperative period.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_treatment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
Seizures
Medicine
Corpus callosotomy
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Adverse effect
Child
business.industry
Lennox Gastaut Syndrome
General Medicine
Perioperative
Random effects model
medicine.disease
Psychosurgery
Treatment Outcome
Meta-analysis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Neurology (clinical)
Neurosurgery
business
Diet, Ketogenic
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Ketogenic diet
Lennox–Gastaut syndrome
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14330350
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1df9295221853312bc5f285f0ca7cf6e