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  • Title: High frequency oscillations in intra-operative electrocorticography before and after epilepsy surgery.
    Author: van Klink NEC, Van't Klooster MA, Zelmann R, Leijten FSS, Ferrier CH, Braun KPJ, van Rijen PC, van Putten MJAM, Huiskamp GJM, Zijlmans M.
    Journal: Clin Neurophysiol; 2014 Nov; 125(11):2212-2219. PubMed ID: 24704141.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Removal of brain tissue showing high frequency oscillations (HFOs; ripples: 80-250Hz and fast ripples: 250-500Hz) in preresection electrocorticography (preECoG) in epilepsy patients seems a predictor of good surgical outcome. We analyzed occurrence and localization of HFOs in intra-operative preECoG and postresection electrocorticography (postECoG). METHODS: HFOs were automatically detected in one-minute epochs of intra-operative ECoG sampled at 2048Hz of fourteen patients. Ripple, fast ripple, spike, ripples on a spike (RoS) and not on a spike (RnoS) rates were analyzed in pre- and postECoG for resected and nonresected electrodes. RESULTS: Ripple, spike and fast ripple rates decreased after resection. RnoS decreased less than RoS (74% vs. 83%; p=0.01). Most fast ripples in preECoG were located in resected tissue. PostECoG fast ripples occurred in one patient with poor outcome. Patients with good outcome had relatively high postECoG RnoS rates, specifically in the sensorimotor cortex. CONCLUSIONS: Our observations show that fast ripples in intra-operative ECoG, compared to ripples, may be a better biomarker for epileptogenicity. Further studies have to determine the relation between resection of epileptogenic tissue and physiological ripples generated by the sensorimotor cortex. SIGNIFICANCE: Fast ripples in intra-operative ECoG can help identify the epileptogenic zone, while ripples might also be physiological.
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