Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, 525 East 68 Street, F-610, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Neurocrit Care. 2018 Aug;29(1):62-68. doi: 10.1007/s12028-018-0506-z.
Data on new-onset seizures after treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) patients are limited and variable. We examined the association between new-onset seizures after aSAH and aneurysm treatment modality, as well their relationship with initial clinical severity of aSAH and outcomes.
This is a retrospective cohort study of all aSAH patients admitted to our institution over a 6-year period. 'Seizures' were defined as any observed clinical seizure or electrographic seizure on continuous electroencephalogram (cEEG) recordings, as determined by the reviewing neurophysiologist. Subgroup analyses were performed in low-grade (Hunt-Hess 1-3) and high-grade (Hunt-Hess 4-5) patients. Outcomes measures were Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) at intensive care unit (ICU) discharge and modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at outpatient follow-up.
There were 282 patients with aSAH; 203 (72.0%) suffered low-grade and 79 (28%) high-grade aSAH. Patients were treated with endovascular coiling (N = 194, 68.8%) or surgical clipping (N = 66, 23.4%). Eighteen (6.4%) patients had seizures, of whom 10 (5.5%) had aneurysm coiling and 7 (10.6%) underwent clipping (p = 0.15). In low-grade patients, seizures occurred less frequently (p = 0.016) and were more common after surgical clipping (p = 0.0089). Seizures correlated with lower GCS upon ICU discharge (p < 0.001), in clipped (p = 0.011) and coiled (p < 0.001) patients and in low-grade aSAH (p < 0.001). Seizures correlated with higher mRS on follow-up (p < 0.001), in clipped (p = 0.032) and coiled (p = 0.004) patients and in low-grade aSAH (p = 0.003).
New-onset seizures after aSAH occurred infrequently, and their incidence after aneurysm clipping versus coiling was not significantly different. However, in low-grade patients, new seizures were more frequently associated with clipping than coiling. Additionally, non-convulsive seizures did not occur in low-grade patients treated with coiling. These findings may explain, in part, previous work suggesting better outcomes in coiled patients and encourage physicians to have a lower threshold for cEEG utilization in low-grade patients suspected to have acute seizures after surgical clipping.
关于治疗颅内动脉瘤性蛛网膜下腔出血(aSAH)患者后新发癫痫的资料有限且各不相同。我们研究了 aSAH 患者治疗后新发癫痫与治疗方式的关系,以及其与初始 aSAH 临床严重程度和结局的关系。
这是一项对 6 年内我院收治的所有 aSAH 患者进行的回顾性队列研究。“癫痫发作”定义为观察到的任何临床发作或连续脑电图(cEEG)记录中的电发作,由审查神经生理学家确定。对低级别(Hunt-Hess 1-3 级)和高级别(Hunt-Hess 4-5 级)患者进行亚组分析。结局指标为重症监护病房(ICU)出院时的格拉斯哥昏迷评分(GCS)和门诊随访时的改良 Rankin 量表(mRS)。
共纳入 282 例 aSAH 患者,其中 203 例(72.0%)为低级别,79 例(28%)为高级别。患者接受血管内弹簧圈栓塞术(N=194,68.8%)或手术夹闭术(N=66,23.4%)治疗。18 例(6.4%)患者出现癫痫发作,其中 10 例(5.5%)为动脉瘤弹簧圈栓塞,7 例(10.6%)为夹闭(p=0.15)。在低级别患者中,癫痫发作的发生率较低(p=0.016),且夹闭术后更为常见(p=0.0089)。癫痫发作与 ICU 出院时的 GCS 评分较低有关(p<0.001),在夹闭患者(p=0.011)和弹簧圈栓塞患者(p<0.001)以及低级别 aSAH 患者中更为常见(p<0.001)。癫痫发作与随访时的 mRS 评分较高有关(p<0.001),在夹闭患者(p=0.032)和弹簧圈栓塞患者(p=0.004)以及低级别 aSAH 患者中更为常见(p=0.003)。
aSAH 后新发癫痫的发生率较低,其在动脉瘤夹闭与弹簧圈栓塞术后的发生率无显著差异。然而,在低级别患者中,新出现的癫痫发作与夹闭的相关性高于弹簧圈栓塞。此外,在接受弹簧圈栓塞治疗的低级别患者中,没有出现非惊厥性癫痫发作。这些发现可能部分解释了以前的工作表明夹闭治疗患者的结局更好,并鼓励医生在怀疑低级别患者在手术后急性癫痫发作时,降低使用 cEEG 的阈值。