Outcome predictors in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy after temporal resective surgery

Acta Epileptologica

Table 4 Multivariate analysis of risk factors for seizure recurrence using the Cox proportional hazard model

	HR	95% CI for HR		P value
	HR	Lower	Upper	P value
Early appearance of GTCS	2.367	0.477	11.737	0.292
History of hypoxia	0.746	0.263	2.115	0.581
MRI-positive finding	1.225	0.303	4.959	0.776
Slow metabolic activity in multiple brain regions in PET/CT	2.004	0.824	4.876	0.125
Hippocampal sclerosis	0.515	0.16	1.653	0.265
Typical symptomatology	0.650	0.116	3.642	0.624
Preoperative bilateral intermittent EEG abnormality	1.290	0.407	4.091	0.665
Postoperative EEG abnormality	12.940	2.705	61.915	< 0.001
Resection site consistent with ictal EEG initiation regions	0.871	0.252	3.017	0.828
Intraoperative discharge range within the resection range	0.872	0.268	2.838	0.82
Lesion location in the mesial temporal lobe	0.998	0.167	5.969	0.998
Drug-resistant epilepsy	2.492	0.682	9.102	0.167

HR Hazard ratios, PET Positron emission tomography, GTCS Generalised tonic-clonic seizures, EEG Electroencephalography, MRI Magnetic resonance imaging

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