The Sodium Channel B4-Subunits are Dysregulated in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Drug-Resistant Patients [PDF]
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of partial epilepsy referred for surgery due to antiepileptic drug (AED) resistance. A common molecular target for many of these drugs is the voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC).
Falciani, Francesco +4 more
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Background: Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurologic disorders in all ages. Epilepsy surgery is widely prescribed for patients with refractory epilepsy, and can control seizure episodes.
Jafar Mehvari-Habibabadi +4 more
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Preventing tomorrow's sudden cardiac death in epilepsy today: what should physicians know about this? [PDF]
Approximately 1% of the population has epilepsy, the most common neurological disorder. Moreover, people with epilepsy are more likely to die prematurely than those without epilepsy, and the most common epilepsy-related category of death is sudden ...
Arida, Ricardo Mario +5 more
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Lamotrigine and Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
Four consecutive cases of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), occurring in non-hospitalized patients while treated with lamotrigine (LTG), between 1995 and 2005, are reported from Stavanger University Hospital, Norway.
J Gordon Millichap
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Probable Sudden Unexpected Death in Dogs With Epilepsy (pSUDED)
Sudden unexpected death in human epileptic patients (SUDEP) is defined as death related to recurrent unprovoked seizures, death occurring unexpectedly, and suddenly in a patient with reasonable state of health, without an obvious medical cause of death ...
Enrice Huenerfauth +3 more
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The ventrolateral medulla and medullary raphe in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy [PDF]
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a leading cause of premature death in patients with epilepsy. One hypothesis proposes that sudden death is mediated by post-ictal central respiratory depression, which could relate to underlying pathology in
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The burden of premature mortality of epilepsy in high-income countries: A systematic review from the Mortality Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy [PDF]
Since previous reviews of epidemiologic studies of premature mortality among people with epilepsy were completed several years ago, a large body of new evidence about this subject has been published.
Beghi, E +9 more
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Sudden unexpected death in children with epilepsy: the many faces of fungal pathogenicity [PDF]
Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological diseases worldwide. the mortality rates are considerably higher in people with epilepsy than would be expected in a healthy population and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the most frequent
Andersen, Monica Levy +5 more
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Heart rate and conductivity disorders in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: genetic predictors
General practitioners, therapists, and cardiologists do not have formal education (training) regarding cerebrocardial syndrome, primarily heart rhythm and conduction disorders in epilepsy and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), as well as the ...
N. A. Shnayder +4 more
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Dentate gyrus abnormalities in sudden unexplained death in infants: morphological marker of underlying brain vulnerability [PDF]
Sudden unexplained death in infants, including the sudden infant death syndrome, is likely due to heterogeneous causes that involve different intrinsic vulnerabilities and/or environmental factors.
Armstrong, Dawna D. +10 more
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