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The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review
Objectives The study aims to correlate craniotomies and their effect on epileptic activity and to assess the impact of prophylaxis anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) used to prevent seizure activity after craniotomy. Method This was a mono-center retrospective review of patients undergoing craniotomy from...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36655150 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33749 |
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author | Abdulaziz, Nada H Alyami, Abeer A Basuliman, Alaa A Ywsef, Khlod A Alsulami, Ahlam H Alyousef, Mohammed A |
author_facet | Abdulaziz, Nada H Alyami, Abeer A Basuliman, Alaa A Ywsef, Khlod A Alsulami, Ahlam H Alyousef, Mohammed A |
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description | Objectives The study aims to correlate craniotomies and their effect on epileptic activity and to assess the impact of prophylaxis anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) used to prevent seizure activity after craniotomy. Method This was a mono-center retrospective review of patients undergoing craniotomy from 2010-2021 at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH), a tertiary center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The patients were divided into two groups depending on preoperative anti-epileptic drug usage and the occurrence of seizures after the surgery. Out of 192, 24.6% had a seizure before the surgery, while the rest reported no seizure activity. We used descriptive statistics to categorize the study population and applied t-test and chi-square to compare different groups and outcomes. Results One-hundred-ninety-two patients were studied: 24.6% had preoperative seizure history and 82.1% were on prophylactic AEDs. The incidence of post-craniotomy seizures was 7.6% in patients with anti-epileptic prophylaxis and 2.7% in those without prophylaxis before the surgery. Almost three-quarters of the patients (72.4%) had surgery for brain tumor resection and redo-craniotomy while the rest (25.5%) were for intracranial hemorrhages (p=0.052). On multivariate analysis, the primary predictor of post-craniotomy seizures was the preoperative history of seizures. Finally, the administration of AEDs does not prevent seizure occurrence after craniotomy (p=0.153). Moreover, the type of prophylaxis and reason for the surgery played no significant role in seizure occurrence. Conclusion Post-craniotomy seizures were common, and preoperative AEDs for primary seizure prevention were not associated with a lower incidence of seizures after craniotomy. |
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spelling | pubmed-98394342023-01-17 The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review Abdulaziz, Nada H Alyami, Abeer A Basuliman, Alaa A Ywsef, Khlod A Alsulami, Ahlam H Alyousef, Mohammed A Cureus Neurology Objectives The study aims to correlate craniotomies and their effect on epileptic activity and to assess the impact of prophylaxis anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) used to prevent seizure activity after craniotomy. Method This was a mono-center retrospective review of patients undergoing craniotomy from 2010-2021 at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH), a tertiary center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The patients were divided into two groups depending on preoperative anti-epileptic drug usage and the occurrence of seizures after the surgery. Out of 192, 24.6% had a seizure before the surgery, while the rest reported no seizure activity. We used descriptive statistics to categorize the study population and applied t-test and chi-square to compare different groups and outcomes. Results One-hundred-ninety-two patients were studied: 24.6% had preoperative seizure history and 82.1% were on prophylactic AEDs. The incidence of post-craniotomy seizures was 7.6% in patients with anti-epileptic prophylaxis and 2.7% in those without prophylaxis before the surgery. Almost three-quarters of the patients (72.4%) had surgery for brain tumor resection and redo-craniotomy while the rest (25.5%) were for intracranial hemorrhages (p=0.052). On multivariate analysis, the primary predictor of post-craniotomy seizures was the preoperative history of seizures. Finally, the administration of AEDs does not prevent seizure occurrence after craniotomy (p=0.153). Moreover, the type of prophylaxis and reason for the surgery played no significant role in seizure occurrence. Conclusion Post-craniotomy seizures were common, and preoperative AEDs for primary seizure prevention were not associated with a lower incidence of seizures after craniotomy. Cureus 2023-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9839434/ /pubmed/36655150 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33749 Text en Copyright © 2023, Abdulaziz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Abdulaziz, Nada H Alyami, Abeer A Basuliman, Alaa A Ywsef, Khlod A Alsulami, Ahlam H Alyousef, Mohammed A The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review |
title | The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review |
title_full | The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review |
title_fullStr | The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review |
title_full_unstemmed | The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review |
title_short | The Short-Term Outcome of Seizure and Anti-epileptic Use After Cranial Surgery: A Retrospective Record Review |
title_sort | short-term outcome of seizure and anti-epileptic use after cranial surgery: a retrospective record review |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9839434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36655150 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33749 |
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