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Right hippocampal sclerosis is more common than left after febrile seizures
J Janszky1, F G Woermann, P Barsi
1National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest, Hungary. janszky@index.hu
Neurology
|April 12, 2003
Abstract:
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is frequently associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and a history of febrile convulsions (HFC). The authors investigated 292 patients with TLE due to HS. Left HS occurred more frequently (57%) than right HS (43%, p = 0.01). Forty-seven percent of the patients had HFC. In patients with right HS, HFC occurred in 59.6%, whereas in patients with left HS, HFC was present in 37.5%, showing a highly significant lateralization difference.