Epileptic seizures in acute cerebral venous sinus thrombosis:risk factors and effect on outcome / 国际脑血管病杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveToinvestigatetheriskfactorsofepilepticseizuresanditseffectonclinical outcome in patients w ith cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). Methods The patients w ith CVST w ere enrol ed retrospectively. The risk factors, clinical manifestations, and imaging data w ere col ected. The data of an epileptic seizure group and a non-epileptic seizure group w ere compared. Results A total of 69 patients with CVST were enroled, including 32 (46.38%) secondary epileptic seizures. In the aspect of clinical manifestations, more patients show ed hemiplegia in the epileptic seizure group (37.50%vs.15.63%; χ2 =5.240, P=0.020). Imaging examination show ed that more patients in the epileptic seizure group presented w ith bleeding ( 29.41%vs. 10.81%; χ2 = 3.818, P= 0.047 ), more lesion involving frontal lobe (31.25%vs.10.81%; χ2 =5.008, P=0.023), and temporal lobe (43.75%vs.8.11%; χ2 =7.318, P=0.005), and the thrombosis sites w ere more common in the superior sagittal sinuses (65.63%vs.40.54%;χ2 =4.264, P=0.036). Multivariate logistic regression analysis show ed that focal neurological deficits (odds ratio 5.167, 95% confidence interval 1.993-15.764; P=0.004) and superior sagittal sinus thrombosis (odds ratio 0.126, 95% confidence interval 0.042-0.370; P=0.039) w ere the independent risk factors for patients w ith secondary epileptic seizures. There w ere no significant differences in hospital mortality (6.25%vs.2.7%; χ2 =0.512, P=0.469 ) and 90 day 90-day ful recovery rate ( defined as Barthel Index >60) (81.25%vs.86.47%; χ2 =0.346, P=0.793) betw een the epileptic seizure group and the non-epileptic seizure group. Conclusions Focal neurologic deficits and superior sagittal sinus thrombosis are the independent risk factors for secondary epileptic seizures, how ever, secondary epileptic seizures is not associ-ated w ith in-hospital mortality risk and 90-day clinical outcomes in patients w ith CVST.