Do antiepileptic drugs play a role in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy?

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy 100%
• Anticonvulsants 60%
• Carbamazepine 29%
• Seizures 16%
• Epilepsy 14%
• Cardiac Arrhythmias 7%
• Tiagabine 6%
• Respiratory Center 6%
• Central Sleep Apnea 5%
• Lamotrigine 5%
• Gabapentin 5%
• Population 5%
• Drug Resistant Epilepsy 4%
• Phenytoin 4%
• Pulmonary Edema 4%
• Apnea 4%
• Heart Arrest 4%
• Incidence 4%
• Social Adjustment 4%
• Intellectual Disability 4%
• Brain Stem 3%
• Confidence Intervals 2%

Chemical Compounds

• Anticonvulsant 74%
• Carbamazepine 60%
• Tiagabine 14%
• Neurogenic 13%
• Gabapentin 12%
• Lamotrigine 12%
• Phenytoin 10%
• Refractory 8%