Premium
Sudden unexpected death in patients with epilepsy receiving renal replacement therapy with dialysis: A 17‐year experience at a single institution
Author(s) -
SCORZA Fulvio A.,
SCATTOLINI Marcello,
CYSNEIROS Roberta M.,
ARIDA Ricardo M.,
DE ALBUQUERQUE Marly,
TERRA Vera C.,
MACHADO Hélio R.,
GOMES Rui A.,
KESROUANI Silvana,
CRUZ Jenner,
PELARIGO Fátima C. M.,
SILVA Alexandre L.,
HENRIQUES Tânia M. G.,
CAVALHEIRO Esper A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
hemodialysis international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.658
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1542-4758
pISSN - 1492-7535
DOI - 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2010.00492.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , epilepsy , incidence (geometry) , dialysis , complication , renal replacement therapy , chronic renal failure , pediatrics , surgery , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , physics , optics
Epilepsy is the most common acquired chronic neurological disorder; each year about 1 in a 1000 patients with chronic epilepsy die suddenly, unexpectedly, and without explanation, even with postmortem examination (SUDEP). Seizure incidence is approximately 10% in patients with chronic renal failure and hemodialysis‐associated seizure has been considered to be a common complication of people on hemodialysis treatment. Considering this, we evaluated the incidence of seizures in 189 patients under dialytic treatment.