Wagner MW, Skocic J, Widjaja E. Seizure control does not predict hippocampal subfield volume change in children with focal drug-resistant epilepsy.
Neuroradiol J 2021;
35:454-460. [PMID:
34618625 PMCID:
PMC9437498 DOI:
10.1177/19714009211049078]
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Abstract
Background and purpose
Recurrent seizures have been reported to induce neuronal loss in the
hippocampus. It is unclear whether seizure control influences hippocampal
volume. The aims of this study were to determine if there was a change in
total or subfield hippocampal volume over time in children with focal
drug-resistant epilepsy, and whether seizure control influenced total or
subfield hippocampal volumes.
Methods
Using FreeSurfer’s automated segmentation of brain magnetic resonance imaging
scans, we calculated the total and subfield (including CA1, CA3, CA4,
subiculum, presubiculum, parasubiculum, molecular layer and dentate gyrus)
hippocampal volumes of children with non-lesional focal epilepsy. Seizure
frequency and hippocampal volumes were assessed at baseline and follow-up.
Patients were classified into those who were seizure free or have
improvement in seizures (group 1) and those with no improvement in seizures
(group 2) at follow-up.
Results
Thirty-seven patients were included, with mean age 10.31 ± 3.68 years at
baseline. The interval between the two magnetic resonance imaging scans was
2.59 ± 1.25 years. There was no significant difference in the total and
subfield hippocampal volumes for the whole cohort at follow-up compared to
baseline (all P > 0.002). Seizure control of the two
groups did not predict total or subfield hippocampal volume, after
controlling for baseline volume, age, severity of seizure frequency at
baseline and time interval between the magnetic resonance imaging scans (all
P > 0.002).
Conclusion
We have found that total and subfield hippocampal volumes did not change, and
seizure control did not predict hippocampal volumes at follow-up in children
with drug-resistant epilepsy.
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