Electroclinical Case-Control Study of Sudep and Postictal Brain Shutdown

Abstract

Ten adult patients with 30 documented epileptic seizures during video-EEG recording and who later died of SUDEP were compared with 30 matched live controls with 92 epileptic seizures from the same video-telemetry database at Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, and Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK.

Keywords

• motor seizures
• cerebral dysfunction
• pathogenic mechanism