Clinical utility of Epitrack for differentiating profiles and patterns of post-surgical change in memory and quality of life in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy
| Autor: | Alejandro Lozano-García, Kevin G. Hampel, Antonio Gutiérrez, Vicente Villanueva, Irene Cano-López, Esperanza González-Bono |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. :1-12 |
| ISSN: | 2327-9109 2327-9095 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23279095.2022.2036990 |
| Popis: | To assess whether performance in attention and executive functions evaluated with the Epitrack screening tool before surgery can differentiate memory and quality of life (QOL) profiles, and detect different post-surgical change patterns in these variables in patients with epilepsy.This is a longitudinal study. Seventy-seven patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (mean age = 37.91) underwent a neuropsychological assessment before and one year after surgery. Epitrack, a screening tool that exclusively evaluates attention and executive functioning, was administered in the pre-surgical assessment, and verbal and visual memory and QOL were assessed before and after surgery.Patients with impaired Epitrack performance had poorer verbal and visual memory than those with intact Epitrack performance, regardless of the time point (for all,Our findings underline the utility of Epitrack screening tool to detect different patterns of verbal and visual memory dysfunction, as well as to predict post-surgical verbal memory decline in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Patients with lower pre-surgical Epitrack scores appear to be at increased risk for post-surgical memory decline. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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