All-cause mortality and SUDEP in a surgical epilepsy population

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Epilepsy surgery is considered to reduce the risk of epilepsy-related mortality, including sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), though data from existing surgical series are conflicting. We retrospectively examined all-cause mortality and SUDEP in a population of 590 epilepsy surgery patients and a comparison group of 122 patients with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy who did not undergo surgery, treated at Columbia University Medical Center between 1977 and 2014. There were 34 deaths in the surgery group, including 14 cases of SUDEP. Standardized mortality ratio (SMR) for the surgery group was 1.6, and SUDEP rate was 1.9 per 1000 patient-years. There were 13 deaths in the comparison group, including 5 cases of SUDEP. Standardized mortality ratio for the comparison group was 3.6, and SUDEP rate was 4.6 per 1000 patient-years. Both were significantly greater than in the surgery group (p < 0.05). All but one of the surgical SUDEP cases, and all of the comparison group SUDEP cases, had a history of bilateral tonic-clonic seizures (BTCS). Of postoperative SUDEP cases, one was seizure-free, and two were free of BTCS at last clinical follow-up. Time to SUDEP in the surgery group was longer than in the comparison group (10.1 vs 5.9 years, p = 0.013), with 10 of the 14 cases occurring >10 years after surgery. All-cause mortality was reduced after epilepsy surgery relative to the comparison group. There was an early benefit of surgery on the occurrence of SUDEP, which was reduced after 10 years. A larger, multicenter study is needed to further investigate the time course of postsurgical SUDEP.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:108

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Epilepsy & behavior : E&B - 108(2020) vom: 10. Juli, Seite 107093

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Casadei, Camilla H [VerfasserIn]
Carson, Kaitlin W [VerfasserIn]
Mendiratta, Anil [VerfasserIn]
Bazil, Carl W [VerfasserIn]
Pack, Alison M [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Hyunmi [VerfasserIn]
Srinivasan, Shraddha [VerfasserIn]
McKhann, Guy M [VerfasserIn]
Schevon, Catherine A [VerfasserIn]
Bateman, Lisa M [VerfasserIn]

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Epilepsy surgery
Epilepsy surgery mortality
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SUDEP
Standardized mortality ratio

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Date Completed 01.02.2021

Date Revised 02.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107093

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NLM309856736