Analysis of Electrocorticography in Epileptic Patients With Responsive Neurostimulation Undergoing Scalp Electroencephalography Monitoring

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PURPOSE: To describe the relationship of electrocorticography events detected by a brain-responsive neurostimulation system (RNS) and their association with ictal and interictal activity detected on simultaneous scalp EEG.

METHODS: We retrospectively identified patients with drug-resistant epilepsy implanted with RNS who subsequently underwent long-term scalp EEG monitoring. RNS detections were correlated to simultaneous activity recorded on scalp EEG to determine the characteristics of electrocorticography-stored long episodes associated with seizures or other findings on scalp EEG.

RESULTS: Eleven patients were included with an average of 3.6 days of monitoring. Most RNS detections were of very brief duration (<10 seconds, 92.9%) and received one stimulation therapy (80.8%). A high proportion of long episodes (67.1%) were not identified as electrographic seizures on scalp EEG. Of those ictal-appearing (71.2%) long episodes, 68.2% had seizure correlates. Long episodes associated with seizures on scalp EEG had a longer median duration compared with those without (39.7 vs. 16.8 seconds, P < 0.002) and had broader spread pattern and were of higher amplitude on electrocorticography. Brief potentially ictal rhythmic discharges were the most common EEG findings associated with long episodes that did not have scalp EEG seizure correlates (100% for ictal- and 50% for non-ictal-appearing long episodes).

CONCLUSIONS: Longer, broader spread and higher amplitude intracranial RNS detections are more likely to manifest as electrographic seizures on scalp EEG. Brief potentially ictal rhythmic discharges may serve as a scalp EEG biomarker of ictal intracranial episodes that are detected as long episodes by the RNS but not identified as electrographic seizures on scalp EEG.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

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Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society - 40(2023), 7 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 574-581

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lemus, Hernan Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Gururangan, Kapil [VerfasserIn]
Fields, Madeline Cara [VerfasserIn]
Jetté, Nathalie [VerfasserIn]
Bolden, Dina [VerfasserIn]
Yoo, Ji Yeoun [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 08.11.2023

Date Revised 08.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/WNP.0000000000000936

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NLM338250808