石黒 太一
   Department   School of Medicine(Yachiyo Medical Center), School of Medicine
   Position   Assistant Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Focal cortical high-frequency oscillations trigger epileptic spasms: confirmation by digital video subdural EEG.
Journal Formal name:Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
Abbreviation:Clin Neurophysiol
ISSN code:13882457/13882457
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 116(12),pp.2819-25
Author and coauthor Akiyama Tomoyuki, Otsubo Hiroshi, Ochi Ayako, Ishiguro Taichi, Kadokura Gemmu, Ramachandrannair Rajesh, Weiss Shelly K, Rutka James T, Carter Snead O
Publication date 2005/12
Summary OBJECTIVE:To localize high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) on the cortex during epileptic spasms using video subdural EEG and Multiple Band Frequency Analysis (MBFA).METHODS:Using video subdural EEG sampled at 1 kHz, we studied a 14-year-old boy with asymmetric epileptic spasms of possible left frontal origin. We identified HFOs, then analyzed and localized their distributions by MBFA. We correlated HFO distribution to clinical spasm intensity.RESULTS:Ictal subdural EEG recorded HFOs at 60-150 Hz lasting 0.3-4 s. MBFA showed extensive but noncontiguous distribution of HFOs predominantly over the left frontal and temporal regions. HFOs began and became quasiperiodic before manifestation of clinical spasms. As clinical spasms intensified, HFOs persisted in regions where they initiated subclinically but were of higher frequency and greater power than HFOs in other regions. We performed cortical resections over the left frontal and temporal regions with predominant HFOs. Six months after surgery, the patient remained seizure free.CONCLUSIONS:HFOs were present over the ictal onset zone during epileptic spasms. Periodic spasms in this patient had the characteristics of partial seizures.SIGNIFICANCE:We show that HFOs occurred over the cerebral cortex during epileptic spasms, and we suggest that these focal cortical HFOs triggered the spasms.
DOI 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.08.029
PMID 16253550