Mortality in Dravet syndrome

Highlights • Dravet-specific mortality rate is 15.84/1000-person-years (CI 9.01–27.85). • Dravet-specific SUDEP rate is 9.32/1000-person-years (CI 4.46–19.45). • Dravet-specific SUDEP rate is the only documented syndrome specific SUDEP rate.

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Published inEpilepsy research Vol. 128; pp. 43 - 47
Main Authors Cooper, Monica S, Mcintosh, Anne, Crompton, Douglas E, McMahon, Jacinta M, Schneider, Amy, Farrell, Kevin, Ganesan, Vijeya, Gill, Deepak, Kivity, Sara, Lerman-Sagie, Tally, McLellan, Ailsa, Pelekanos, James, Ramesh, Venkateswaran, Sadleir, Lynette, Wirrell, Elaine, Scheffer, Ingrid E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.12.2016
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Child
Child, Preschool
Death, Sudden - epidemiology
Death, Sudden - etiology
Dravet syndrome
Epilepsies, Myoclonic - genetics
Epilepsies, Myoclonic - mortality
Epilepsy
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Infant
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Male
Mortality
Mutation
NAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel - genetics
Neurology
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Young Adult
Epilepsy
Mortality
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Dravet syndrome
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Summary:Highlights • Dravet-specific mortality rate is 15.84/1000-person-years (CI 9.01–27.85). • Dravet-specific SUDEP rate is 9.32/1000-person-years (CI 4.46–19.45). • Dravet-specific SUDEP rate is the only documented syndrome specific SUDEP rate.
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ISSN:0920-1211
1872-6844
DOI:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.10.006