Quantification of respiratory parameters in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Fulvio Alexandre Scorza²  Ana Maria Fonseca Abreu¹  Marly De Albuquerque¹  Julio B Cota Pacheco¹  Renato Breviglieri¹  Josemir Wanderley Sander¹  Antônio Carlos Da Silva¹  Esper Abrão Cavalheiro²  Ricardo Mario Arida¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina Laboratório de Neurologia ExperimentalSão Paulo,Brasil

关键词: epilepsy;    SUDEP;    respiratory parameters;    epilepsia;    SUDEP;    parâmetros respiratórios;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2007000300017

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Dysfunction affecting cardiac or pulmonary systems has been postulated as a major factor in sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Whilst the majority of studies of cardiorespiratory function have focused on changes during seizures, here we investigate whether epilepsy influences basal respiratory parameters in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) during the interictal period. Spirometry was performed in 10 females and 10 males. Measurements of Vital Capacity (VC), Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV1) and ratios of FEV1 to FVC (FEV1/FVC) were obtained, and these values were analyzed as percentages of predicted values. None of the patients had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and no significant alterations in respiratory function tests were found among these patients. No association between seizure frequency, antiepileptic drugs and SUDEP could be found in this study. Although the study did not identify any specific respiratory abnormality in TLE patients during the interictal period, re-evaluation of clinical data on pulmonary disorders in people with epilepsy should be better investigated.

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