dc.contributor.author | Abdalfatah, Saediyah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-30T07:26:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-30T07:26:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03-10 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.limu.edu.ly/handle/123456789/2059 | |
dc.description | Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder of the central nervous system
characterized by recurrent seizures with or without convulsions Currently, seizures
are classified into four groups: simple (status epilepticus), partial (seizures in infants
and young adults), complex (generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS)) and
unclassified seizures
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorder that affect >50 million
people across the world. It is now widely recognized that people with epilepsy are two
to three times more likely to die early. It reduces life expectancy by 10 years for those
with symptomatic epilepsy and by two years for those with idiopathic epilepsies1.
Accidents, sudden unexpected deaths, status epilepticus and suicides constitute a vast
majority of cause of death in epilepsy 2 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | People with epilepsy have increased risk of premature death, and their life expectancy
may reduce by 2-10 yr. Population- and hospital-based studies have shown that the
excess mortality in epilepsy is not entirely explained by deaths directly attributable to
epilepsy such as accidents and drowning during a seizure. It is also significantly
contributed by deaths from other causes such as cardiac deaths, deaths due to
malignancies and other causes. It had recently been recognized that sudden
unexpected deaths in epilepsy (SUDEP) contributed to a small yet important
proportion of mortality in epilepsy SUDEPs are deaths (witnessed or unwitnessed)
unrelated to trauma, drowning or status epilepticus and not attributable to any specific
medical conditions. Several factors related to epilepsy and drug therapy have been
found to be associated with higher risk of SUDEP. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | faculty of Basic Medical Science - Libyan International Medical University | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | Epilepsy and its relationship to sudden death | en_US |
dc.type | Other | en_US |