[PDF] Top 20 Sudden cardiac death in the young: could epilepsy be involved?

... with epilepsy (he suffered his irst seizure in grade school at 9 years of age), but initially, his family saw no clear connection between his death and the disease for which he was being ... See full document

... but the results are not wholly consistent be- tween studies. hus, the main risk factors evaluated until now include refractoriness of the epileptic condition, presence of gen- eralized ... See full document

... results. In 1993, Drake and co-workers reviewed resting ECGs in 75 patients with epilepsy and compared ventricular rate, PR interval, QRS duration, and QT interval corrected for heart rate (QTC) with ... See full document

... Although the patient described here presented some risk factors that might have made him a potential candi- date for SUDEP, our study shows that a possible role of circadian variation in the ... See full document

... Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological disorder in the world and has a higher mortality rate than would be expected in a healthy ...of the ... See full document

... controlled epilepsy who died suddenly during a tonic-clonic seizure, loss of re- spiratory or cardiovascular regulation may be implicated, and may be induced by cerebellar abnormalities unable to ... See full document

... of the most prevalent neurological diseases worldwide. The mortality rates are consider- ably higher in people with epilepsy than would be expected in a healthy population and ... See full document

... of the rs11720524 polymorphism remains to be ...our in silico analysis revealed that the presence of the protective G allele creates a DNA binding site for the POU domain ... See full document

... not the only coronary anomaly that causes SCD. In fact, this entity is rather uncommon in adult ...population. The clinical and patho- logical profile may be divided into child and ... See full document

... record the interval between the last cigarette smoked and the ECG recording in the Smoker ...on cardiac functions and participants were asked not to smoke for half an hour before ... See full document

... premature death as compared to patients without this ...that could trigger sudden cardiac death in patients with ...alterations in the thalamic complex are evident ... See full document

... period: Cardiac investigations between seizures have been described by several research ...ECGs in 75 patients with epilepsy and compared ventricular rate, PR interval, QRS duration, and QT interval ... See full document

... not be considered prior to age 7. The treatment of sleep terror disorder usually consists of reassuring the parent that, with time, the child will outgrow these harmless ...might be ... See full document

... of the most common serious brain disorders. Worldwide, epilepsy is estimated to affect 50 million people, most of whom live in developing countries and therefore may have limited access to medical ... See full document

... and the incidence of upper respiratory infections (38% of which are due to influenza) both peak in the winter ...reduction in incidence of cardiovascular abnormalities and sudden ... See full document

... tion, epilepsy is a transient occurrence of signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive, or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain ...Furthermore, epilepsy is considered to be ... See full document

... but the results are not wholly consistent between ...of the epi- lepsy, presence of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, poly- therapy with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), young age, dura- tion of ... See full document

... 13. Nashef L, Fish DR, Sander JW, Shorvon SD. Incidence of sudden unex- pected death in an adult outpatient cohort with epilepsy at a tertiary referral centre. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry ... See full document

... of the heart have been described in patients with ...of the nonvascular cardiac interstitium leading to inter-myocardiocytic fibrosis, changes in vascular architecture and myocardial ... See full document

... those in the SCD-HeFT trial. They further argue against the notion that patients included in large clinical trials are not representative of our domestic population, and suggest that our ... See full document