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Article Dans Une Revue Current Opinion in Neurology Année : 2006

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: from mechanisms to prevention.

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To discuss the pathophysiology and potential prevention of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. RECENT FINDINGS: Long-term electrocardiogram monitoring over several months has detected ictal asystole in three out of 20 (15%) patients with refractory epilepsy, suggesting that high-risk ictal arrhythmias occur in a greater proportion of patients with refractory epilepsy than previously thought. In case-control studies, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy was found to be associated with frequent generalized tonic-clonic seizures and greater ictal maximal heart rate, especially during nocturnal attacks. Conversely, supervision at night was associated with a lower risk of occurrence. The impact of epilepsy surgery on the risk of death and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy remains unclear, with comparable long-term survival in an epilepsy surgery cohort compared with a matched population of patients with refractory epilepsy who did not undergo surgery. Previous results may have been partly confounded by the association observed between preoperative decreased heart rate variability and poor postoperative seizure outcome. SUMMARY: Ictal arrhythmias may represent a more prevalent cause of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy than previously thought. No clear recommendations have emerged from the literature regarding the most appropriate therapeutic strategies to prevent the event, apart from the supervision at night of patients with refractory epilepsy.
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inserm-00388350 , version 1 (26-05-2009)

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Philippe Ryvlin, Alexandra Montavont, Philippe Kahane. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: from mechanisms to prevention.. Current Opinion in Neurology, 2006, 19 (2), pp.194-9. ⟨10.1097/01.wco.0000218238.90711.f4⟩. ⟨inserm-00388350⟩
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