Sudden unexpected death: a rare event in a large community based prospective cohort with newly diagnosed epilepsy and high remission rates

Sudden unexpected death: a rare event in a large community based prospective cohort with newly diagnosed epilepsy and high remission rates

4 Patients with chronic epilepsy seem to have a much higher incidence of SUDEP and a tertiary clinic based population with chronic epilepsy in the United Kingdom had an estimated incidence of 1:200 patients. 5 This is in some contrast with the two SUDEP deaths in 5000 patient years reported by the M...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry neurosurgery and psychiatry, 1999-05, Vol.66 (5), p.692-693
Hauptverfasser: LHATOO, S D, LANGAN, Y, MACDONALD, B K, ZEIDAN, S, SANDER, J W A S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Cause of Death
Cohort Studies
Confidence intervals
Disease Progression
Drownings
Epilepsy
Epilepsy - mortality
Epilepsy - physiopathology
Humans
Letters to the Editor
Male
Mortality
Prospective Studies
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:4 Patients with chronic epilepsy seem to have a much higher incidence of SUDEP and a tertiary clinic based population with chronic epilepsy in the United Kingdom had an estimated incidence of 1:200 patients. 5 This is in some contrast with the two SUDEP deaths in 5000 patient years reported by the MRC Anti-epileptic Withdrawal Study Group for patients in remission from epilepsy. 6 We report the first sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in the NGPSE.
ISSN:0022-3050
1468-330X
DOI:10.1136/jnnp.66.5.692