1. Use of preoperative functional neuroimaging to predict language deficits from epilepsy surgery.
- Author
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Sabsevitz DS, Swanson SJ, Hammeke TA, Spanaki MV, Possing ET, Morris GL 3rd, Mueller WM, and Binder JR
- Subjects
- Adult, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe complications, Female, Humans, Language Disorders etiology, Language Tests, Male, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Anterior Temporal Lobectomy, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe surgery, Language Disorders diagnosis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Abstract
Background: Left anterior temporal lobectomy (L-ATL) may be complicated by confrontation naming deficits., Objective: To determine whether preoperative fMRI predicts such deficits in patients with epilepsy undergoing L-ATL., Methods: Twenty-four patients with L-ATL underwent preoperative language mapping with fMRI, preoperative intracarotid amobarbital (Wada) testing for language dominance, and pre- and postoperative neuropsychological testing. fMRI laterality indexes (LIs), reflecting the interhemispheric difference between activated volumes in left and right homologous regions of interest, were calculated for each patient. Relationships between the fMRI LI, Wada language dominance, and naming outcome were examined., Results: Both the fMRI LI (p < 0.001) and the Wada test (p < 0.05) were predictive of naming outcome. fMRI showed 100% sensitivity and 73% specificity in predicting significant naming decline. Both fMRI and the Wada test were more predictive than age at seizure onset or preoperative naming performance., Conclusions: Preoperative fMRI predicted naming decline in patients undergoing left anterior temporal lobectomy surgery.
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- 2003
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