Journal
NMR IN BIOMEDICINE
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 544-553Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1029
Keywords
H-1 magnetic resonance spectroscopy; temporal lobe epilepsy; myo-inositol
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The objectives of this work were to compare concentrations of N-acetylaspartate (NAA), glutamate (Gin), glutamine (Gin), Glx (=Glu +Gln), myo-inositol (ml), total creatine (Cre) and other metabolites in the temporal lobes of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE), cryptogenic TLE (cTLE), who show no abnormalities in high-resolution MRI, and healthy controls using single voxel H-1 MRS at 3 T. Twelve patients with mTLE, nine with cTLE and 22 controls were investigated using a short echo time STEAM protocol. Voxels were positioned bilaterally in the medial and lateral temporal lobes. Spectra were processed with LCModel. Significantly lower mean NAA were detected in mTLE patients (P < 0.001) and a trend towards lower NAA in cTLE patients compared to controls (P = 0.053). Glx was not different between groups. Estimates of Glu showed a different metabolic pattern in mTLE with elevated Glu in lateral compared with medial voxels on the ipsilateral side to seizure onset (P = 0.019). MI concentrations were significantly lower in cTLE (P < 0.001) and in mTLE patients (P = 0.005) compared with healthy controls. MI/Cre was significantly reduced in cTLE patients only (P = 0.004). The results confirm low NAA in mTLE and to a lesser extent in cTLE patients. MI and ml/ Cre were identified as potential metabolic indicators of the epileptogenic area in cTLE. Copyright (C) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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