Increasing structural atrophy and functional isolation of the temporal lobe with duration of disease in temporal lobe epilepsy
| Autor: | Baxter P. Rogers, Victoria L. Morgan, Benjamin N. Conrad, Hakmook Kang, Bassel Abou-Khalil |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Models Neurological Precuneus Brain mapping Article Functional Laterality Temporal lobe Cohort Studies Epilepsy Atrophy Bayesian multivariate linear regression Internal medicine Neural Pathways medicine Humans Gray Matter Brain Mapping medicine.diagnostic_test Magnetic resonance imaging Organ Size medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Temporal Lobe Regression Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Epilepsy Temporal Lobe Neurology Multivariate Analysis Linear Models Cardiology Female Neurology (clinical) Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Epilepsy Research. 110:171-178 |
| ISSN: | 0920-1211 |
| Popis: | Summary Background Due to pharmacoresistant seizures and the underutilization of surgical treatments, a large number of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients experience seizures for years or decades. The goal of this study was to generate a predictive model of duration of disease with the least number of parameters possible in order to identify and quantify the significant volumetric and functional indicators of TLE progression. Methods Two cohorts of subjects including 12 left TLE, 21 right TLE and 20 healthy controls (duration = 0) were imaged on a 3 T MRI scanner using high resolution T1-weighted structural MRI and 20 min of resting functional MRI scanning. Multivariate linear regression methods were used to compute a predictive model of duration of disease using 49 predictors including functional connectivity and gray matter volumes computed from these images. Results No model developed from the full set of data accurately predicted the duration of disease across the entire range from 3 to 50 years. We then performed the regression on 35 subjects with durations of disease in the range 10 to 35 years. The resulting predictive model showed that longer durations were associated with reductions in functional connectivity from the ipsilateral temporal lobe to the contralateral temporal lobe, precuneus and mid cingulate, and with decreases in volume of the ipsilateral hippocampus and pallidum. Conclusions Functional and volumetric parameters accurately predicted duration of disease in TLE. The findings suggest that TLE is associated with a gradual functional isolation and significant progressive structural atrophy of the ipsilateral temporal lobe over years of duration in the range of 10–35 years. Furthermore, these changes can also be detected in the contralateral hemisphere in these patients, but to a lesser degree. |
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