Low prevalence of amyloid and tau pathology in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.
Juliana C SilvaLucy E VivashCharles B MalpasYong HaoCatriona McLeanZhibin ChenTerence J O'BrienNigel Charles JonesPatrick KwanPublished in: Epilepsia (2021)
Aβ plaques and pTau were uncommon in the resected brain tissue of patients who have undergone temporal lobectomy, and did not correlate with clinical characteristics or preoperative psychometric test scores, except for a lower VPA median score in patients with Aβ plaques. Therefore, considering the low prevalence of Aβ plaques and pTau herein observed, it is unlikely that cognitive impairment in TLE is driven by the same mechanisms as in Alzheimer disease.
Keyphrases
- drug resistant
- cognitive impairment
- end stage renal disease
- multidrug resistant
- risk factors
- acinetobacter baumannii
- prognostic factors
- ejection fraction
- temporal lobe epilepsy
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- patients undergoing
- peritoneal dialysis
- lymph node
- white matter
- cerebral ischemia
- brain injury
- subarachnoid hemorrhage