Hippocampal abnormalities and seizure recurrence after antiepileptic drug withdrawal
- 11 July 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 67 (1), 134-136
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000223350.08394.06
Abstract
The authors performed hippocampal volumetry and T2 relaxometry in 84 consecutive patients with partial epilepsy from a protocol for antiepileptic drug (AED) withdrawal after at least 2 years of seizure control. Seizure recurrence after AED withdrawal was more frequent among patients with hippocampal atrophy and abnormal hippocampal T2 signal.Keywords
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