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83 – Mortality in Children with Epilepsy
Jeffrey Buchalter,Carol S. Camfield,Peter Camfield +2 more
- pp 642-645
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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: current knowledge and future directions.
TL;DR: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy rates, risk factors, triggers, and proposed mechanisms are reviewed, and potential preventive strategies are critically assessed.
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Incidence and risk factors in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: A prospective cohort study
Thaddeus S. Walczak,Ilo E. Leppik,M. D'Amelio,John O. Rarick,Elson L. So,P. Ahman,Kevin H. Ruggles,Gregory D. Cascino,John F. Annegers,W. A. Hauser +9 more
TL;DR: The results support the idea that tonic-clonic seizures are an important proximate cause of SUDEP, and create a risk profile for SUDEP that may help direct preventative efforts.
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Unifying the definitions of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
TL;DR: A unified SUDEP definition and classification is proposed to resolve current ambiguities and to retrieve cases that would not have been further studied if the previous definitions were used.
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Seizure detection, seizure prediction, and closed-loop warning systems in epilepsy
Sriram Ramgopal,Sriram Ramgopal,Sigride Thome-Souza,Sigride Thome-Souza,Michele Jackson,Navah Ester Kadish,Navah Ester Kadish,Iván Sánchez Fernández,Jacquelyn Klehm,William J. Bosl,Claus Reinsberger,Claus Reinsberger,Steven C. Schachter,Tobias Loddenkemper +13 more
TL;DR: An overview of seizure detection and related prediction methods is presented and their potential uses in closed-loop warning systems in epilepsy are discussed.
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Long-term mortality in childhood-onset epilepsy.
Matti Sillanpää,Shlomo Shinnar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on long-term mortality in a Finnish cohort of subjects with a diagnosis of epilepsy in childhood, which was prospectively followed for 40 years and found that the risk of sudden, unexplained death was especially high among children who were not in remission.