Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: What Would Darwin Say About It?
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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
SUDEP is defined as the sudden, unexpected, witnessed or unwitnessed, non-traumatic, and non-drowning death in patients with epilepsy with or without evidence for a seizure, and excluding documented status epilepticus, in which postmortem examination does not reveal a structural or toxicological cause for death1. Where autopsy is not performed, and for the purpose of epidemiological studies, su...
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People with epilepsy have increased risk of premature death, and their life expectancy may reduce by 2-10 yr. Population- and hospital-based studies have shown that the excess mortality in epilepsy is not entirely explained by deaths directly attributable to epilepsy such as accidents and drowning during a seizure. It is also significantly contributed by deaths from other causes such as cardiac...
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Mortality in people with epilepsy is two- to three-times that of the general population. This can be attributed to epilepsy itself (epilepsy-related death) or to the underlying cause of the epilepsy. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the commonest cause of epilepsy-related death. It is a syndrome where a person with epilepsy dies suddenly and no other cause of death is found. There...
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The Canadian health care environment represents a unique opportunity to capture data on SUDEP in children; however, it is well recognized that only a small subset of children with epilepsy receive care from a paediatric neurologist. Dr. Jette, a coinvestigator on this project, is currently leading a study examining the health care utilization of 26,000 people with epilepsy in Alberta. Dr. Jette...
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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is the most common category of seizure-related death for patients who develop chronic epilepsy, accounting for up to 17% of epilepsy deaths. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is defined as a sudden, unexpected, non-accidental death in an individual with epilepsy with or without evidence of a seizure having occurred (excluding documented status epilepticus) ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: South Asian Research Journal of Applied Medical Sciences
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2706-5774
DOI: 10.36346/sarjams.2020.v02i01.003