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 Ryvlin, April 2009
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