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Total Cerebral Volume Is Reduced in Patients With Localization-Related Epilepsy and a History of Complex Febrile Seizures
- Source :
- Archives of Neurology. 60:250
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- American Medical Association (AMA), 2003.
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Abstract
- Context Febrile seizures may lead to later epilepsy. They have been associated with hippocampal atrophy but their effect on total cerebral volume is unknown. Objective To compare total cerebral volume in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without a history of complex febrile seizures (CFS). Design Survey. Setting Epilepsy monitoring center. Subjects Forty patients with localization-related epilepsy and temporal lobe onset determined by video electroencephalogram and 20 controls. Intervention Magnetic resonance imaging measurement of cerebral volume. Main Outcome Measure Total cerebral volume. Results Patients with a history of CFS had significantly reduced total cerebral volume compared with patients without CFS. In addition, male patients with CFS had significantly lower total cerebral volume than male normal controls. There was no significant difference between patients without CFS, or all patients, and controls. Conclusion Complex febrile seizures may have a global effect on brain development.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.diagnostic_test
Brain
Magnetic resonance imaging
Context (language use)
Neurological disorder
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Seizures, Febrile
Temporal lobe
Central nervous system disease
Epilepsy
Complex febrile seizure
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Risk Factors
Anesthesia
medicine
Humans
Female
In patient
Neurology (clinical)
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00039942
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2e691e01e762af6f8360fe9e993a3091