Bilateral Pathological Damage in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences - Tập 18 Số S4 - Trang 645-648 - 1991
Thomas L. Babb1
1Department of Neurology and the Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

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ABSTRACT:Patients with drug-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy can be treated successfully with surgical resection of one temporal lobe, especially when the resection includes the hippocampus. Although intrahippocampal recordings usually localize seizure onsets to one hippocampus, there are bilaterally-independent interictal spikes, occasional contralateral seizure onsets and post-resection seizures that implicate contralateral damage and epileptogenicity. Post-mortem onquantified studies of both hippocampi in epileptics have revealed incidences of bilateral hippocampal sclerosis, mostly being asymmetric. The present paper reports on two post-mortem cases of bilateral, asymmetric cell loss in patients with physiologically-verified hippocampal epilepsy. In one patient the damage was severe bilaterally, but only slightly greater damage in one hippocampus. In the second patient, damage in one hippocampus was as severe as in the first patient; however the contralateral hippocampus appeared undamaged. However, cell counts revealed losses of over 30% in three different hippocampal subregions, indicating a mild form of asymmetric bilateral damage in patient two.

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