Table 1.
Participant demographics and disease factors
| Patients (mean±SD) |
Controls (mean±SD) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | 37.3±12.5 | 38.4±12.6 | 0.75 |
| Gender, female | 13 (50) | 13 (50) | 0.99 |
| Handedness, right | 23 (88.4) | 23 (88.4) | 0.99 |
| Epilepsy duration, years | 20.1±14.5 | ||
| Seizure frequency, monthly | |||
| FACS | 2.8±11.4 | ||
| FICS | 6.7±7.8 | ||
| FBTC | 0.4±1.0 | ||
| History of FBTC, yes | 14 (53.8) | ||
| Epileptogenic side, right | 18 (69.2) | ||
| MTS on MRI, yes | 19 (73.0) | ||
| Postoperative patients: time between surgery and postoperative MRI, months | 35.7±13.8 | ||
| Surgery type | |||
| SAH | 12 | ||
| ATL | 7 |
For continuous variables, data shown are: mean±SD and the statistical test is the paired t-test. For categorical variables, data are N (%) and the statistical test is χ2.
N=26 preoperative patients with TLE and N=26 controls, and N=19 postoperative patients with repeat imaging.
ATL, anterior temporal lobectomy; FACS, focal aware conscious seizures; FBTC, focal to bilateral tonic-clonic (secondarily generalised) seizures; FICS, focal impaired consciousness seizures; MTS, mesial temporal sclerosis; SAH, selective amygdalohippocampectomy.