Abstract:Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) has been defined as a sudden/unexpected, witnessed/unwitnessed, nontraumatic, and nondrowning death in epileptic patients with/without seizure evidence and documented status epilepticus. Identified as the leading cause of epilepsy-related deaths, SUDEP cases are highly unrecognized and underreported due to diagnostic difficulty. We report a case of a successfully revived hemodialysis patient who developed cardiopulmonary arrest after a witnessed convulsive seizure. E… Show more
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