MORTEMUS Project - MORTality in
Epilepsy Monitoring
Unit Study
Using in-hospital, pre-surgical monitoring data to assess risk mechanisms and risk factors of SUDEP
Philippe Ryvlin (Lyon, France) & Torbjörn Tomson (Sweden)
MORTEMUS is the first international initiative to collect cases
of SUDDEN DEATH, SUDEP and NEAR-SUDEP (defined as a cardiac or respiratory arrest that has required an active resuscitation
procedure) that have occurred in epilepsy patients undergoing video-EEG monitoring.
The
objective of this study is to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying SUDEP (primary cardiac, respiratory
or cerebral dysfunction) through the monitoring and/or clinical data recorded in the reported patients.
This is
an International League Against Epilepsy (ILEA) and LFCE (French Chapter of the ILEA) sponsored study.
Source: Correspondence with Dr
Philippe Ryvlin, April 2009
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