TY - JOUR
T1 - Early Postoperative Seizures Following Awake Craniotomy and Functional Brain Mapping for Lesionectomy
AU - Freund, Brin E.
AU - Feyissa, Anteneh M.
AU - Khan, Aafreen
AU - Middlebrooks, Erik H.
AU - Grewal, Sanjeet S.
AU - Sabsevitz, David
AU - Sherman, Wendy J.
AU - Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
AU - Tatum, William O.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Objective: Awake craniotomy with electrocorticography (ECoG) and direct electrical stimulation (DES) facilitates lesionectomy while avoiding adverse effects. Early postoperative seizures (EPS), occurring within 7 days following surgery, can lead to morbidity. However, risk factors for EPS after awake craniotomy including clinical and ECoG data are not well defined. Methods: We retrospectively studied the incidence and risk factors of EPS following awake craniotomy for lesionectomy, and report short-term outcomes between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2022. Results: We included 138 patients (56 female) who underwent 142 awake craniotomies, average age was 50.78 ± 15.97 years. Eighty-eight (63.7%) patients had a preoperative history of tumor-related epilepsy treated with antiseizure medication (ASM), 12 (13.6%) with drug-resistance. All others (36.3%) received ASM prophylaxis with levetiracetam perioperatively and continued for 14 days. An equal number of cases (71) each utilized a novel circle grid or strip electrodes for ECoG. There were 31 (21.8%) cases of intraoperative seizures, 16 with EPS (11.3%). Acute abnormality on early postoperative neuroimaging (P = 0.01), subarachnoid hemorrhage (P = 0.01), young age (P = 0.01), and persistent postoperative neurologic deficits (P = 0.013) were associated with EPS. Acute abnormality on neuroimaging remained significant in multivariate analysis. Outcomes during hospitalization and early outpatient follow up were worse with EPS. Conclusions: We report novel findings using ECoG and clinical features to predict EPS, including acute perioperative brain injury, persistent postoperative deficits and young age. Given worse outcomes with EPS, clinical indicators for EPS should alert clinicians of potential need for early postoperative EEG monitoring and perioperative ASM adjustment.
AB - Objective: Awake craniotomy with electrocorticography (ECoG) and direct electrical stimulation (DES) facilitates lesionectomy while avoiding adverse effects. Early postoperative seizures (EPS), occurring within 7 days following surgery, can lead to morbidity. However, risk factors for EPS after awake craniotomy including clinical and ECoG data are not well defined. Methods: We retrospectively studied the incidence and risk factors of EPS following awake craniotomy for lesionectomy, and report short-term outcomes between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2022. Results: We included 138 patients (56 female) who underwent 142 awake craniotomies, average age was 50.78 ± 15.97 years. Eighty-eight (63.7%) patients had a preoperative history of tumor-related epilepsy treated with antiseizure medication (ASM), 12 (13.6%) with drug-resistance. All others (36.3%) received ASM prophylaxis with levetiracetam perioperatively and continued for 14 days. An equal number of cases (71) each utilized a novel circle grid or strip electrodes for ECoG. There were 31 (21.8%) cases of intraoperative seizures, 16 with EPS (11.3%). Acute abnormality on early postoperative neuroimaging (P = 0.01), subarachnoid hemorrhage (P = 0.01), young age (P = 0.01), and persistent postoperative neurologic deficits (P = 0.013) were associated with EPS. Acute abnormality on neuroimaging remained significant in multivariate analysis. Outcomes during hospitalization and early outpatient follow up were worse with EPS. Conclusions: We report novel findings using ECoG and clinical features to predict EPS, including acute perioperative brain injury, persistent postoperative deficits and young age. Given worse outcomes with EPS, clinical indicators for EPS should alert clinicians of potential need for early postoperative EEG monitoring and perioperative ASM adjustment.
KW - Awake craniotomy
KW - Brain tumor
KW - Electrocorticography
KW - Epilepsy
KW - Seizure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wneu.2023.10.119
DO - 10.1016/j.wneu.2023.10.119
M3 - Article
C2 - 37898274
AN - SCOPUS:85175802086
SN - 1878-8750
VL - 181
SP - e732-e742
JO - World neurosurgery
JF - World neurosurgery
ER -