Risk of Mortality after Status Epilepticus

Abstract

Researchers at University College and Great Ormond Street Hospital, and other members of the North London Epilepsy Research Network investigated the mortality within 8 years following an episode of childhood convulsive status epilepticus and its predictors in a prospective, population-based study from north London, UK.

Keywords

• risk factor for mortality
• prolonged febrile convulsions
• convulsive status epilepticus