Patients with drug‐resistant epilepsy have an increased mortality rate, with the majority of
deaths being epilepsy related and 40% due to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy …

Epilepsy is a complex neurological condition with numerous etiologies and treatment
options. In a subset of these patients, sudden unexpected death can occur, and to date …

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Objective Epilepsy is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and
mortality. Whether cardiac structure and function are altered in epilepsy remains unclear. To …

Persons with epilepsy (PWE) have a high risk of premature death with a two to fourfold
increased standardized mortality ratios (SMR) compared with the background population. 1 …

Epilepsy is associated with increased mortality. Cardiovascular disease confers a significant
portion of this increased risk. Recently there is increased interest in the burden of …

Background Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a sudden, unexpected death
in people with epilepsy, with or without evidence of an epileptic seizure. The …

Purpose Cardiac abnormalities resulting from chronic epilepsy (“the epileptic heart”)
constitute a well-recognized comorbidity. However, the association of cardiac alterations …

Objective. This paper aims to investigate the possibility of detecting tonic-clonic seizures
(TCSs) with behind-the-ear, two-channel wearable electroencephalography (EEG), and to …

Introduction Epilepsy is a disease that affects a significant proportion of the female
population worldwide. The management of anti-seizure medications during pregnancy and …