Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: Could Epilepsy be Involved?

Domperidone, Parkinson disease and sudden cardiac death: Mice and men show the way

“…Clinicians should also identify new approaches that offer the possibility of prevention in the near future. Following this reasoning and considering the same proposals for people with epilepsy 45 , 46 , it is important to consider that PD patients who are at risk require a thorough cardiovascular medical history investigation, long-term ECG recordings and cardiac MR imaging. Because the causes of SCD among PD patients remain unknown, animal models of PD have been widely used during the past four decades to investigate the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of this neurodegenerative disorder 47 .…”