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Research Study of Specimens Obtained During Epilepsy Surgery

This study is NOT currently recruiting participants.

Summary | Eligibility | Citations | Contacts

Summary

Number

02-N-0014

Sponsoring Institute

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Recruitment Detail

Type: Completed Study; data analyses ongoing
Gender: Male & Female
Min Age: 4
Max Age: N/A

Referral Letter Required

Yes

Population Exclusion(s)

None

Keywords

Serotonin Receptor;
Cell Culture;
Temporal Lobe;
Endothelial Cells;
Superficial Temporal Artery;
Natural History

Recruitment Keyword(s)

Epilepsy;
Intractable Epilepsy

Condition(s)

Epilepsy

Investigational Drug(s)

None

Investigational Device(s)

None

Intervention(s)

None

Supporting Site

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

This study will collect brain tissue samples for research purposes from patients undergoing surgery to treat epilepsy. The standard surgical procedure for medically intractable epilepsy i.e., epilepsy that cannot be controlled with medicine requires removal of more brain tissue than is needed for diagnostic study. This extra tissue, which would otherwise be discarded, will be used for research purposes. In addition, a blood vessel in the scalp, called the superficial temporal artery, is also normally cut during surgery, and a piece of this vessel will be taken for research use.

Patients 4 years of age or older who undergo surgery for medically intractable epilepsy may be eligible for this study.

Brain tissue collected under this protocol will be used for studies of brain cells in other diseases and of serotonin receptors. Any remaining brain tissue will be frozen for use in future research. The superficial temporal artery will be used for comparison with carotid arteries (a neck artery that supplies the brain) from patients with blockage of this blood vessel.

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Eligibility

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

To be eligible for entry into the study, candidates must meet al the following criteria:

1. Be 4 years of age or older.

2. Able to give informed consent, or, assent if a child.

3. Have agreed to undergo brain surgery to treat drug resistant epilepsy and are enrolled in protocol 11-N-0051 Epilepsy Surgery.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Candidates will be excluded if they:

1. Are not a surgical candidate as specified in appropriate protocols.


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Citations:

Temporal lobe epilepsy

Seizure control and mortality in epilepsy

Surgery and results of selective amygdala-hippocampectomy in one hundred patients with nonlesional limbic epilepsy

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Contacts:

Principal Investigator

Referral Contact

For more information:

Kareem A. Zaghloul, M.D.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)



Gretchen C. Scott, R.N.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
National Institutes of Health
Building 10
Room 3D20
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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SNBrecruiting@nih.gov

Office of Patient Recruitment
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Building 61, 10 Cloister Court
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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ccopr@nih.gov

Clinical Trials Number:

NCT00025714

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