Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis patients and controls.

	MTLE-HS patients (n=30)	Controls (n=32)	P
Age (mean±SD)	29.3±6.7	30.1±4.8	>0.05
Male/female, n.	16/14	10/22	>0.05
History of febrile seizures, n. (%)	23 (76.7)
Family history of epilepsy, n. (%)	6 (20)
Age at onset of seizures (year) (mean±SD)	9.1±5.5
Silent period time (year) (mean±SD)	1.3±0.3
Surgery, n.	20 (66.7%)
Post-op follow up time (months) (mean±SD)	19.4±4.7
Post-op seizure-free time (months) (mean±SD)	15.0±9.4

MTLE-HS, mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis; SD, standard deviation.