Short and long term prediction of seizure freedom in drug-resistant focal epilepsy surgery.

Autor: Santos-Santos A; Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Havana, Cuba. Electronic address: aisel.santos@gmail.com., Morales-Chacón LM; International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN), Havana, Cuba., Galan-Garcia L; Department of Neuroinformatics, Cuban Neuroscience Center, Cuba., Machado C; Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, President of the Cuban Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, Cuba.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical neurology and neurosurgery [Clin Neurol Neurosurg] 2023 Jul; Vol. 230, pp. 107753. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2023.107753
Abstrakt: Background: The selection of candidates for drug-resistant focal epilepsy surgery is essential to achieve the best post-surgical outcomes.
Objective: To develop two prediction models for seizure freedom in the short and long-term follow-up and from them to create a risk calculator in order to individualize the selection of candidates for surgery and future therapies in each patients.
Methods: A sample of 64 consecutive patients who underwent epilepsy surgery at two Cuban tertiary health institutions between 2012 and 2020 constituted the basis for the prediction models. Two models were obtained through the novel methodology, based on biomarker selection reached by resampling methods, cross-validation and high-accuracy index measured through the area under the receiving operating curve (ROC) procedure.
Results: The first, to pre-operative model included five predictors: epilepsy type, seizures per month, ictal pattern, interictal EEG topography and normal or abnormal magnetic resonance imaging,. it's precision was 0.77 at one year, and with four years and more 0.63. The second model including variables from the trans-surgical and post-surgical stages: the interictal discharges in the post-surgical EEG, incomplete or complete resection of the epileptogenic zone, the surgical techniques employed and disappearance of the discharge in post-resection electrocorticography; the precision of this model was 0.82 at one year, and with four years and more 0.97.
Conclusions: The introduction of trans-surgical and post-surgical variables increase the prediction of the pre-surgical model. A risk calculator was developed using these prediction models, which could be useful as an accurate tool to improve the prediction in epilepsy surgery.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interest statement No conflicts of interests are declared by any of the authors.
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