Population
Patients with epilepsy, including childhood-onset and adults
Design
Editorial
Key result
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is frequently underreported and misdiagnosed as sudden cardiac death, despite an estimated incidence of 1.2 per 1,000 patient-years in adults.
Authors
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Clinicians should review seizure history in unexplained sudden deaths; leaves open accurate SUDEP incidence and differentiation from cardiac causes.
Highlights the critical need to distinguish sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) from sudden cardiac death (SCD) to improve diagnostic accuracy and epidemiological tracking.
Ryvlin et al. (2017) conducted an editorial in Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is frequently underreported and misdiagnosed as sudden cardiac death, despite an estimated incidence of 1.2 per 1,000 patient-years in adults.
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