| Literature DB >> 34491376 |
Maria Ilyas-Feldmann1, Bernd Vorderwülbecke2,3, Mirja Steinbrenner2.
Abstract
While two thirds of patients with epilepsy become seizure-free with antiseizure medications, 30% remain drug-resistant. In drug-resistant focal epilepsy, epilepsy surgery offers an approximately 65% chance of becoming seizure-free; however, for a successful outcome of surgery a seizure focus must be precisely located, for which imaging techniques are essential. In recent years, the proportion of patients with apparently inconspicuous findings in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the presurgical evaluation has increased. The sensitivity of MRI can be increased using special MRI sequences and MRI postprocessing techniques. Ictal and interictal source localization based on electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetencephalography (MEG) aim at determining the onset of interictal discharges and seizures. Nuclear medicine imaging techniques such as interictal positron emission tomography (PET) and ictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) can detect chronic or acute seizure-related changes in brain metabolism and can indicate an epileptogenic focus even if MRI is inconspicuous. The results of these techniques are used to plan invasive EEG recordings and subsequently surgery. Concordant findings are associated with better surgical outcomes and show significantly higher rates of seizure freedom in the long-term seizure outcome.Entities:
Keywords: EEG; Epilepsy; MRI; PET; Surgery
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34491376 PMCID: PMC9200687 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-021-01180-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nervenarzt ISSN: 0028-2804 Impact factor: 1.297
| „HARNESS“ – Harmonized Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Structural Sequences 2019 [ | MRT-Protokoll bei Epilepsie nach DGN-Leitlinie 2017 [ |
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| Keine spezielle Angulierung notwendig | Teils mit temporaler Angulierung |
| Hochauflösende 3‑D-Sequenzen mit isotropen Voxeln (1 × 1 × 1 mm) | Höchstens 2‑mm-Schichtdicke |
| 3‑D-T1 | T1 sagittal |
| – | T1 koronar |
| 3‑D-FLAIR | FLAIR axial |
| – | FLAIR koronar |
| T2/STIR koronar | T2-TSE axial |
| – | T2-TSE koronar (temporale Angulierung) |
| Optionale Sequenzen bei speziellen Fragestellungen: T2*/SWI oder T1 KM | – |


