Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure and Prediction of Postoperative Memory in Patients with Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Hippocampal Sclerosis

Summary: Purpose: Although temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients with dominant hemisphere hippocampal sclerosis generally have good cognitive outcome after anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL), a minority of patients experience at least mild post‐ATL decline on one or more standardized measures of episodic and semantic memory. The goal of this investigation was to determine whether memory outcome in this group could be predicted from preoperative intracarotid amobarbital procedure (IAP) recognition memory scores.

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