Mortality of epileptic patients (CROSBI ID 519515)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | sažetak izlaganja sa skupa | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Šepić-Grahovac, Dubravka ; Willheim, Ksenija ; Jurjević, Ante ; Sepčić, Juraj
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Mortality of epileptic patients
A rare but important cause of death in patients with epilepsy is epilepsy-related death, which includes status epilepticus (SE), death after a single seizure, accidents and sudden unexpected death (SUD). The cause of SUD is unknown ; it is probably related to seizure, hypoxia or cardiac arrhythmias. The aim of our study was to analiyse the mortality of epileptic patients who were admitted at hospital in epileptic status. We analysed 26 patients, aged 20-83 ; 14 (54%) male and 12 (46%) female. In 92% SE was the consequence of therapy absence in patients with long term epilepsy, while in 8% it was the first sign of epilepsy. SE was successfully treated in 21 patients (81%). The rest of 5 (19%) patients did not survive. Two of them where elderly patients ; one had epilepsy as a result of cerebrovascular disease and the other as a result of injury of the brain. They died with the diagnostic of cardio-respiratory decompensation. Three patients died suddenly and unexpectelly when the seizures ceased (interictal phase of epilepsy). Those patients were younger and suffered from primary generalised seizures in idiopathic epilepsy.
Epilepsy; Status epilepticus; Mortality
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Podaci o prilogu
S137-S138-x.
1997.
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Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
Abstracts of the Meeting of the European Federation of Neurological Societies. European Journal of Neurology. Vol 4 Suppl 1 June 1997.
Gerstenbrandt, Franz ; Tichy, Jiri
London : Delhi: European Federation of Neurological Societes
Podaci o skupu
Meeting of the European Federation of Neurological Societies
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04.06.1997-08.06.1997
Prag, Češka Republika