Abstract
Objective: Removal of brain tissue showing high frequency oscillations (HFOs; ripples: 80-250 Hz and fast ripples: 250-500 Hz) in preresection electrocorticography (preECoG) in epilepsy patients seems a predictor of good surgical outcome. We analyzed occurrence and localization of HFOs in intra-operative preECoG and postresection electrocorticography (postECoG).
Methods: HFOs were automatically detected in one-minute epochs of intra-operative ECoG sampled at 2048 Hz of fourteen patients. Ripple, fast ripple, spike, ripples on a spike (RoS) and not on a spike (RnoS) rates were analyzed in pre- and postECoG for resected and nonresected electrodes.
Results: Ripple, spike and fast ripple rates decreased after resection. RnoS decreased less than RoS (74% vs. 83%; p = 0.01). Most fast ripples in preECoG were located in resected tissue. PostECoG fast ripples occurred in one patient with poor outcome. Patients with good outcome had relatively high postECoG RnoS rates, specifically in the sensorimotor cortex.
Conclusions: Our observations show that fast ripples in intra-operative ECoG, compared to ripples, may be a better biomarker for epileptogenicity. Further studies have to determine the relation between resection of epileptogenic tissue and physiological ripples generated by the sensorimotor cortex.
Significance: Fast ripples in intra-operative ECoG can help identify the epileptogenic zone, while ripples might also be physiological. (C) 2014 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2212-2219 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Clinical Neurophysiology |
Volume | 125 |
Issue number | 11 |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2014 |
Keywords
- Epilepsy surgery
- Focal epilepsy
- Electrocorticography
- High frequency oscillations
- TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY
- INTRAOPERATIVE ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY
- PEDIATRIC EPILEPSY
- FAST RIPPLES
- SEIZURE REMISSION
- RESECTION
- CHILDREN
- BRAIN
- HZ
- RECORDINGS