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Administrative data

NCT number NCT00040326
Other study ID # R01NS42372
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received June 24, 2002
Last updated February 22, 2010
Start date July 2002
Est. completion date November 2007

Study information

Verified date February 2010
Source University of California, Los Angeles
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Federal Government
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this trial is to compare the effectiveness of early surgical intervention for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy to continued treatment with antiepileptic drugs.


Description:

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) is the most common form of epilepsy, and the most medically intractable. An estimated one-quarter to one-half of the 400,000 patients in the United States with intractable epilepsy have MTLE. Generally, MTLE becomes intractable in adolescence and early adulthood. Persistence of seizures during this time commonly causes adverse social and psychological consequences which can become irreversible.

The current treatment of MTLE primarily consists of medications to control seizures. Usually surgical treatment is considered only if medications are not effective. Recent studies have shown that surgery can stop disabling seizures in 60 to 70% of patients with long standing MTLE. However, to date, no research study has examined surgery performed as an early therapy.

The goal of the study is to determine if more patients treated with early surgery become seizure free and have improved quality of life compared to similar patients who continue to receive antiepileptic medication only. This study will determine the difference in seizure frequency between the two groups and the impact of the two treatments on the quality of life of the participants.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 200
Est. completion date November 2007
Est. primary completion date November 2007
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 12 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion criteria:

- Intractability: Two AEDs, one of which was either Dilantin, Tegretol, Carbatrol, or Trileptal used in appropriate doses, have failed due to inefficacy, not intolerance.

- Frequency and Duration: Persistence of disabling seizures at 6 per year or greater for less than two years after onset, or after recurrence if initial treatment resulted in seizure freedom for 6 or more months.

- Age: 12 years or older at baseline visit.

- History: Simple and complex partial seizures, with or without secondarily generalized seizures beginning in childhood or later, with or without febrile convulsions earlier.

- Absence of a history of serious cerebral insult after the age of 5; a progressive neurological disorder; mental retardation (I.Q. less than 70); psychogenic seizures; focal neurological deficits other than memory disturbances; unequivocal focal extratemporal EEG slowing or interictal spikes; or lesions on neuroimaging outside of the mesial temporal area.

- Seizure semiology: Auras that occur in isolation and are not primary sensory other than olfactory or gustatory. Absence of initial focal motor movements other than automatisms or dystonic posturing. Presence of postictal confusion.

- Neurological examination: No unexplained focal or lateralized neurological deficits other than memory dysfunction.

- Baseline QOL and ancillary outcome data:

- Adolescents - QOLIE-48-AD, CHQ, CBCL, PANAS, Life Events Scale, FAC, FEICS-PC completed.

- Adults - QOLIE-82/ESI55, locus of control, PANAS, Life Events Scale, FAD, FEICS-PC completed.

- Global rating scale completed.

- Baseline ancillary outcomes completed. Psychiatric evaluation: No evidence of psychosis, current or recent substance abuse, suicidality, anorexia, or psychogenic seizures. Baseline BSI and MINI or KSADS completed.

- Neuropsychological testing: I.Q. of greater than 70. No significant focal neurocognitive dysfunction inconsistent with MRI and PET findings. Baseline neuropsychological testing completed.

- Neuroimaging: Hippocampal atrophy on MRI T1 imaging with either increased ipsilateral mesial signal on T2 imaging, or ipsilateral hypometabolism on PET (Class I), or either hippocampal atrophy on MRI only, or temporal hypometabolism on PET only (Class II).

- Absence of temporal neocortical or extratemporal lesions on MRI, or diffuse unilateral or bilateral hypometabolism on PET.

- Video-EEG Monitoring:

- If neuroimaging is Class I, ictal EEG onset is lateralized to the ipsilateral side; if neuroimaging is Class II, ictal EEG onset is focal on the ipsilateral side.

- Absence of contralateral or extratemporal ictal onset.

- Absence of persistent extratemporal, or predominant contralateral focal interictal spikes or slowing, or generalized interictal spikes.

- Absence of psychogenic seizures.

- Seizure baseline: Seizure log, seizure report forms, and seizure severity scale completed.

- IAP: In those randomized to surgery only, contralateral hemisphere can support memory.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Procedure:
anteromesial temporal resection
surgical treatment for epilepsy
Drug:
antiepileptic drugs
pharmacotherapy

Locations

Country Name City State
United States University of Michigan, Department of Neurology Ann Arbor Michigan
United States Emory University Atlanta Georgia
United States Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland
United States University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia
United States Northwestern University Chicago Illinois
United States Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Ohio
United States UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Neurology Los Angeles California
United States Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee
United States Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia Pennsylvania
United States Barrow Neurological Institute Phoenix Arizona
United States University of Rochester, Department of Neurology Rochester New York
United States Swedish Medical Center Seattle Washington

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of California, Los Angeles

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary The primary outcome measure will be freedom from disabling epileptic seizures (complex partial and secondarily generalized seizures, and simple partial seizures that are apparent to an observer) 2 years No
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