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Sudden
Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is a syndrome where
a person with epilepsy dies suddenly and no other cause
of death is revealed. Often the person dies alone in
their sleep. The excess mortality is greatest amongst
young adults. One of the difficulties in this area is
that presumed but unsubstantiated mechanisms are sometime
registered as the cause of death e.g. suffocation or
status epilepticus or that the death is registered as
unascertained so that the exact number of deaths falling
within the category of SUDEP is not known. |
