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Pediatric Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology, 2016
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder among children and adolescents that is associated with increased mortality for numerous reasons. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is a critically important entity for physicians who treat patients with epilepsy.
Sanjeev V. Kothare, Anne Marie Morse
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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and sleep

Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2011
The risk of sudden unexpected death is considered to be notably higher in patients with epilepsy with respect to the general population. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is probably caused by the peri-ictal concurrence of a number of different predisposing and precipitating factors.
Nobili L, Proserpio P, Rubboli G, Montano N, Didato G, Tassinari CA.   +5 more
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Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy

American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, 2005
Patients with epilepsy have a mortality rate higher than that of the general population; sudden unexpected death represents a significant category of mortality in these patients. The precise frequency of occurrence of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is not well defined, with a range of 1 in 370 to 1100 in the general epileptic population. A
Kelly C. Lear-Kaul, Linda Coughlin, Michael J. Dobersen   +2 more
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Amygdala sclerosis in sudden and unexpected death in epilepsy

Epilepsy Research, 1999
Sclerosis of the amygdala is a not uncommon finding in patients with chronic epilepsy. The amygdala has efferent connections, via the central nuclei, to cardioregulatory centres in the medulla. Experimental studies have suggested that damage to the central nucleus may be of functional significance in patients with sudden and unexpected death in ...
Francesco Scaravilli, Maria Thom, B. Griffin, Josemir W. Sander   +3 more
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Forensic Considerations in Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy

Epilepsia, 1997
Summary: Sudden death in epilepsy has recently found its way into both civil and criminal litigation in the United States. Civil cases commonly involve actions or inactions by physicians with respect to antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) alleged to have caused sudden unexpected death in a patient with epilepsy (SUDEP).
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Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy

CNS Drugs, 2013
D. Hesdorffer, T. Tomson
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Preventing Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy

JAMA Neurology, 2018
Orrin Devinsky, Daniel Friedman, Philippe Ryvlin   +2 more
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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: epidemiology, mechanisms, and prevention

Lancet Neurology, 2016
O. Devinsky, D. Hesdorffer, D. Thurman, S. Lhatoo, G. Richerson   +4 more
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Author response: Practice guideline summary: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy incidence rates and risk factors: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society

Neurology, 2017
D. Gloss, Jacqueline A. French, D. Hesdorffer, W. Henry Smithson, C. Harden   +4 more
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Sudden Unexpected Death and Epilepsy

2020
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