Are brief febrile seizures benign? A systematic review and narrative synthesis

L Gould, V Delavale, C Plovnick, T Wisniewski… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Febrile seizures affect 2%–5% of US children and are considered benign although
associated with an increased risk of epilepsy and, rarely, with sudden unexplained death …

De novo mutations in childhood cases of sudden unexplained death that disrupt intracellular Ca2+ regulation

M Halvorsen, L Gould, X Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is an understudied problem. Whole-exome
sequence data from 124 “trios”(decedent child, living parents) was used to test for excessive …

Video analyses of sudden unexplained deaths in toddlers

L Gould, CA Reid, AJ Rodriguez, O Devinsky… - Neurology, 2024 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives More than 2,900 US children aged younger than 4 years die
from unknown causes each year, accounting for more than 219,000 life years lost annually …

Proteomic differences in hippocampus and cortex of sudden unexplained death in childhood

DF Leitner, C William, A Faustin, M Askenazi… - Acta …, 2022 - Springer
Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is death of a child over 1 year of age that is
unexplained after review of clinical history, circumstances of death, and complete autopsy …

Raphe and ventrolateral medulla proteomics in sudden unexplained death in childhood with febrile seizure history

DF Leitner, C William, A Faustin, E Kanshin… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
Sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is death of a child≥ 12 months old that is
unexplained after autopsy and detailed analyses. Among SUDC cases,~ 30% have febrile …

The impact of errors in medical certification on the accuracy of the underlying cause of death

USH Gamage, T Adair, L Mikkelsen, PKB Mahesh… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Correct certification of cause of death by physicians (ie completing the medical
certificate of cause of death or MCCOD) and correct coding according to International …

[HTML][HTML] Neurodevelopmental disorders: 2023 update

P Carriba, N Lorenzón, M Dierssen - Free Neuropathology, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Several advances in the field of neurodevelopmental diseases (NDDs) have been reported
by 2022. Of course, NDDs comprise a diverse group of disorders, most of which with …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990–2019 and review of the medical literature

NZ Miller - Toxicology Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Although there is considerable evidence that a subset of infants has an increased risk of
sudden death after receiving vaccines, health authorities eliminated" prophylactic …

Rare genetic variants associated with sudden cardiac arrest in the young: a prospective, population-based study

L Holmstrom, NS Chaudhary, K Nakamura… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2023 - ahajournals.org
A significant portion (~ 12%–30%) of children/young adults with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)
have identifiable pathogenic gene variants. 1 Prior studies have largely been performed in …

Epilepsy mortality: the unseen and unknown

O Devinsky - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
In this issue of Neurology®, Klovegard et al. 1 examine epilepsy mortality using a wide-
angle lens, looking beyond sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) to other direct …