Sudden unexpected death in patients with epilepsy receiving renal replacement therapy with dialysis: a 17-year experience at a single institution
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Fulvio A Scorza1, Marcello Scattolini, Roberta M Cysneiros
1Disciplina de Neurologia Experimental, Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. scorza.nexp@epm.br
Abstract:
Epilepsy is the most common acquired chronic neurological disorder; each year about 1 in a 1000 patients with chronic epilepsy die suddenly, unexpectedly, and without explanation, even with postmortem examination (SUDEP). Seizure incidence is approximately 10% in patients with chronic renal failure and hemodialysis-associated seizure has been considered to be a common complication of people on hemodialysis treatment. Considering this, we evaluated the incidence of seizures in 189 patients under dialytic treatment.
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