The value of multichannel MEG and EEG in the presurgical evaluation of 70 epilepsy patients |
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Authors: | Knake S Halgren E Shiraishi H Hara K Hamer H M Grant P E Carr V A Foxe D Camposano S Busa E Witzel T Hämäläinen M S Ahlfors S P Bromfield E B Black P M Bourgeois B F Cole A J Cosgrove G R Dworetzky B A Madsen J R Larsson P G Schomer D L Thiele E A Dale A M Rosen B R Stufflebeam S M |
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Institution: | Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. knake@staff.uni-marburg.de |
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Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the sensitivity of a simultaneous whole-head 306-channel magnetoencephalography (MEG)/70-electrode EEG recording to detect interictal epileptiform activity (IED) in a prospective, consecutive cohort of patients with medically refractory epilepsy that were considered candidates for epilepsy surgery. METHODS: Seventy patients were prospectively evaluated by simultaneously recorded MEG/EEG. All patients were surgical candidates or were considered for invasive EEG monitoring and had undergone an extensive presurgical evaluation at a tertiary epilepsy center. MEG and EEG raw traces were analysed individually by two independent reviewers. RESULTS: MEG data could not be evaluated due to excessive magnetic artefacts in three patients (4%). In the remaining 67 patients, the overall sensitivity to detect IED was 72% (48/67 patients) for MEG and 61% for EEG (41/67 patients) analysing the raw data. In 13% (9/67 patients), MEG-only IED were recorded, whereas in 3% (2/67 patients) EEG-only IED were recorded. The combined sensitivity was 75% (50/67 patients). CONCLUSION: Three hundred and six-channel MEG has a similarly high sensitivity to record IED as EEG and appears to be complementary. In one-third of the EEG-negative patients, MEG can be expected to record IED, especially in the case of lateral neocortical epilepsy and/or cortical dysplasia. |
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