Epilepsia (Copenhagen), 2010-05, Vol.51 (5), p.916-920
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Ictal hypoventilation contributes to cardiac arrhythmia and SUDEP: Report on two deaths in video‐EEG–monitored patients
- Ist Teil von
- Epilepsia (Copenhagen), 2010-05, Vol.51 (5), p.916-920
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Summary Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a common cause of death in patients with epilepsy, with cardiorespiratory dysfunction and a primary cessation of cerebral function proposed as causes. We report two cases of SUDEP in patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy undergoing video‐EEG (electroencephalography) telemetry at two centers. Both had secondarily generalized convulsions. EEG, electrocardiography (ECG), and respiratory changes in these two patients are reported herein. Ictal/postictal hypoventilation may contribute to SUDEP with the resulting hypoxemia and acidosis leading to failure of recovery of cortical function and eventual cardiac failure.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0013-9580eISSN: 1528-1167DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02513.xTitel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_746299315
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- Schlagworte
- Adult, Arrhythmias, Cardiac - etiology, Biological and medical sciences, Cause of Death, Death, Sudden - etiology, Electrocardiography, Electrodiagnosis. Electric activity recording, Electroencephalography - statistics & numerical data, Epilepsy monitoring unit, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe - diagnosis, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe - mortality, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe - physiopathology, Female, Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy, Humans, Hypercapnia, Hypoventilation - complications, Hypoventilation - epidemiology, Hypoxemia, Hypoxia, Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects), Male, Medical sciences, Middle Aged, Monitoring, Physiologic, Nervous system, Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes), Neurology, Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, SUDEP, Telemetry, Videotape Recording