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Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy

  • Sperling M
Epilepsy Currents (2001) 1(1) 21-23
DOI: 10.1046/j.1535-7597.2001.00012.x
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Abstract

Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) accounts for 7–17% of deaths among people with epilepsy. Both cardiac and pulmonary derangement have been postulated as proximate causes. Patients with uncontrolled seizures are at greatest risk for SUDEP, and experiencing tonic-clonic seizures, taking multiple antiepileptic drugs and having coexisting neurologic disease further increase the risk.

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Sperling, M. R. (2001). Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy. Epilepsy Currents, 1(1), 21–23. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1535-7597.2001.00012.x

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