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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2019 May 21;60(6):1171–1183. doi: 10.1111/epi.15565

Table 1 –

Patient demographics and characteristics relative to seizure outcomes. Reported are p-values for the univariate analysis between each variable and seizure outcome. Significant values (p<0.05) are denoted by bold font.

Entire Cohort Association with Engel I outcome Association with Engel I or II outcome
n = 234 p-value p-value

μ ± σ range 6
months
12
months
18
months
24
months
6
months
12
months
18
months
24
months
Age [years] 42 ± 15 (7 – 82) 0.005 0.213 0.477 0.652 0.020 0.001 0.053 0.093
Follow-up[months] 30 ± 14 (12 – 75)
n %
Gender
  Female 124 53.0% 0.984 0.636 0.185 0.534 0.340 0.210 0.729 0.643
Handedness
  Right 161 83.4%
  Left 29 15.0% 0.533 0.218 0.324 0.438 0.611 0.656 0.929 0.679
  Ambidextrous 3 1.6%
Side of LITT
  Left 136 58.1% 0.604 0.732 0.719 0.953 0.804 0.691 0.690 0.440
rHS on MRI
  Yes 172 73.5% 0.048 0.289 0.225 0.613 0.232 0.587 0.751 0.969
Dual Pathology on MRI
  Yes 49 21.1% 0.504 0.454 0.043 0.171 0.322 0.933 0.206 0.537
PET
  Ipsilateral 139 73.5% 0.749 0.423 0.140 0.262 0.879 0.670 0.660 0.924
  Negative 29 15.3%
  Bilateral 16 8.5%
  Contralateral 3 1.6%
Seizure Type*
  FIAS 223 95.3% 0.311 0.392 0.506 0.158 0.800 0.701 0.369 1.000
  FTC 107 45.7% 0.841 0.506 0.490 0.106 0.016 0.007 0.109 0.030
  FAS 38 16.2% 0.684 0.708 0.327 0.870 0.206 0.074 0.078 0.346
EEG Localization
  Ipsilateral Temporal 180 83.7% 0.427 0.175 0.302 0.069 0.630 0.379 0.551 0.618
  Bitemporal 20 9.3%
  Multifocal 5 2.3%
  Non-localized 6 2.8%
  Ipsilateral Extratemporal 3 1.4%
  Contralateral Temporal 1 0.5%
Invasive Monitoring
  Yes 48 20.5% 0.978 0.959 0.475 0.942 0.749 0.696 0.564 0.950
(*)

Since patients may have more than one seizure types, each patient could belong to multiple seizure type categories. For this reason, the total percentage of patients for this variable is greater than 100%.

(†)

Variables with missing data. The numbers and percentages reported reflect the number of patients missing data.