Paper- and online-based externally validated nomograms are effective in predicting naming decline after temporal lobe surgery in patients with epilepsy, according to study results published in Neurology. Factors predictive of postsurgical naming decline in this patient population included side of surgery, age at epilepsy onset, age at surgery, sex, and education, and preoperative naming score.
A total of 719 patients with epilepsy who underwent temporal lobe epilepsy surgery at the Cleveland Clinic were included in the study. In addition, the investigators enrolled an external validation cohort of 138 patients who also underwent temporal lobe surgery at Columbia University Medical Center, Emory University School of Medicine, or University of Washington School of Medicine.