Seizure outcomes after resection of temporal encephalocele in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: Temporal encephaloceles (TEs) are seen in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE); yet they are also common incidental findings. Variability in institutional pre-surgical epilepsy practices and interpretation of epileptogenic network localization contributes to bias in existing epilepsy cohorts with TE, and therefore the relevance of TE in DRE remains controversial. We sought to estimate effect sizes and sample sizes necessary to demonstrate clinically relevant improvements in seizure outcome with different surgical approaches.

SMART-PET: a Self-SiMilARiTy-aware generative adversarial framework for reconstructing low-count [18F]-FDG-PET brain imaging.

Introduction: In Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, the use of tracers increases radioactive exposure for longitudinal evaluations and in radiosensitive populations such as pediatrics. However, reducing injected PET activity potentially leads to an unfavorable compromise between radiation exposure and image quality, causing lower signal-to-noise ratios and degraded images. Deep learning-based denoising approaches can be employed to recover low count PET image signals: nonetheless, most of these methods rely on structural or anatomic guidance from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fails to effectively preserve global spatial features in denoised PET images, without impacting signal-to-noise ratios.

Fellowship education in epilepsy in Latin America and Africa: Results of a survey.

A large proportion of those affected by epilepsy live in resource-poor areas. The Epilepsy surgery in low-resource settings Task Force from the ILAE undertook a survey in Africa and Latin America to identify fellowships in Epilepsy and EEG as well as in Epilepsy Surgery. The results revealed a significant shortage of training programs in these two regions of the globe.

Effect of vagal nerve stimulation on patients with bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy.

Objective: To investigate the effects of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) on the seizure frequency in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy (bi-TLE). Additionally, we aimed to determine the safety of VNS and its side effects.

Methods: Our retrospective study included 17 patients with bi-TLE who underwent VNS-device implantation at our center from 1997 to 2019.