Epilepsy is a group of neurological diseases characterized by epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures are episodes that can vary from brief and nearly undetectable to long periods of vigorous shaking. Recently from the bits of research, the fact is coming in a picture that epileptic patients have a risk of unexpected death due to cardiological factors. This article entails the link between cardiological parameters and sudden death in Epilepsy.
SUDEP is defined specifically as the sudden, unexpected, witnessed or unwitnessed, non-traumatic and non-drowning death in patients with epilepsy with or without evidence for a seizure, and excluding documented status epilepticus, in which post-mortem examination does not reveal a structural or toxicological cause for death. This condition is referred as Sudden Unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The cause of SUDEP is not known. Observations in…
