| Literature DB >> 12196667 |
P Vermathen1, G Ende, K D Laxer, J A Walker, R C Knowlton, N M Barbaro, G B Matson, M W Weiner.
Abstract
(1)H MRS imaging was obtained from 10 patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy before and after surgery. After surgery, metabolic recovery in the contralateral hippocampus was detected. Preoperatively, reduced N-acetylaspartate (p < 0.04) increased after surgery nonsignificantly to equal control values. Cholines increased after surgery (p < 0.02) and creatine-phosphocreatine showed a trend to higher values. The results suggest that the contralateral hippocampus is affected by repeated seizure activity in the ipsilateral hippocampus, rather than presence of bilateral mesial temporal sclerosis.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12196667 PMCID: PMC2753242 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.59.4.633
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910