Do epileptic seizures in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy may be influenced by precipitating factors?

Bernadette Couffignal; Bénédicte D’Agata; Sylvie Bocquet; Arielle Crespel; Philippe Gélisse; Philippe Coubes; Michel Baldy-Moulinier



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Do epileptic seizures in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy may be influenced by precipitating factors?
Epilepsies. Volume 13, Number 1, 49-52, Mars 2001, Echanges paramédicaux
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Author(s) : Bernadette Couffignal, Bénédicte D’Agata, Sylvie Bocquet, Arielle Crespel, Philippe Gélisse, Philippe Coubes, Michel Baldy-Moulinier
Summary : Do epileptic seizures in patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (MTLE) may be influenced by precipitating factors? The answer to these questions may be useful to improve the results of video-EEG monitoring. The conditions of seizure occurrence were analysed in 31 patients with refractory MTLE. Findings from 126 partial seizures recorded during a presurgical video-EEG protocol suggest the influence of facilitating factors including sleep deprivation, antiepileptic drug discontinuation, waking or awakening, beginning of afternoon and morning during the nycthemeral period and induced behavioral change.
Keywords : medial temporal lobe epilepsy, epileptic seizures, precipitating factors, nycthemerial period.