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The role of brain magnetic resonance imaging on the timing of antiepileptic drugs withdrawal following mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Miad Albalawi, Fawzi Babtain, Saleh Baeesa, Youssef Al- Said and Khalid Alqadi
Neurosciences Journal July 2021, 26 (3) 270-276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2021.3.20200182
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    - Correlation of seizures retiming of seizures and patient characteristics (*indicated p-value<0.05).

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    CharacteristicNo seizures off medication n=23No seizures on medication n=24Seizures on medication n=17P-value
    Sex (male)16 (70%)11 (46%)12 (71%)NS
    Mean age at epilepsy surgery33 years36 years32 yearsNS
    Baseline median of monthly seizures444.25NS
    Presence of febrile convulsions11 (48%)6 (25%)5 (29%)NS
    Median number of AEDs22.52NS
    Mean time to start tapering AEDs7 months10 months24 months<0.01
    Mean time to discontinue AEDs24 months60 months72 months<0.01
    MRI (Abnormal)23 (100%)21 (88%)9 (53%)<0.011
    EEG (Unilateral IEDs)21 (91%)16 (67%)9 (53%)<0.012
    MTS in pathology15 (65%)14 (58%)11 (65%)NS
    • ↵ 1 Compared to the group who had seizures and were on medications,

    • ↵ 2 Compared to the group who had seizures and were on medications

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