SynthesisJournal of the American Heart Association2020
Systematic Review of the Genetics of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Potential Overlap With Sudden Cardiac Death and Arrhythmia-Related Genes.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Molecular autopsy in unexplained sudden death: a systematic review and meta-analysis of ACMG-corrected diagnostic yield, genomic architecture, and family translation.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Electrocardiographic abnormalities in epilepsy: analysis of cardiac conduction patterns and SUDEP Risk.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Pooled it
- 2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families.Heart rhythm · 2021Guideline
- Systematic Review of the Genetics of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Potential Overlap With Sudden Cardiac Death and Arrhythmia-Related Genes.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Pooled it
- Molecular mechanisms of sudden unexplained death and recent updates on molecular autopsy strategies for forensic investigation.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Review
- A Change of Heart forEpilepsy currents · 2026Article
- Sleep, Neural Circulatory Control, and Cardiovascular Disease: A Mechanistic Review.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2026Review
- Epilepsy-induced heart damage and sudep risk: ion channelopathies, calcium homeostasis, and the therapeutic potential of resveratrol.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Hidden and Under-Recognized Causes of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI): A Comprehensive Review of Autopsy Findings.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Research progress on the relationship between long QT syndrome (LQTS) and epilepsy: A review.Medicine · 2026Review
- D801N in ATP1A3-encoded Na/K-ATPase alpha 3 causes cardiac arrhythmogenesis through sodium-calcium exchanger-mediated calcium overload.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Functional and pharmacological investigation of novel and de novo KCND3 variants identified in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders.Journal of human genetics · 2026Article
- Cardiac-specific Kv1.1 deficiency alters cardiomyocyte electrophysiology without modifying overall cardiac function or arrhythmia susceptibility.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Update on the similarities between SADS, SIDS, and SUDEP: Three sides of the same pyramid?International journal of legal medicine · 2026Review
- Development and Validation of a Model to Predict Secondary Arrhythmia in Patients With Epilepsy.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence in preclinical epilepsy research: Current state, potential, and challenges.Epilepsia open · 2025Review
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- The Crucial Interplay Between the Lungs, Brain, and Heart to Understand Epilepsy-Linked SUDEP: A Literature Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Cardiogenic and chronobiological mechanisms in seizure-induced sinus arrhythmias.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Mixed Segmental Uniparental Disomy of Chromosome 15q11-q1 Coexists with Homozygous Variant inGenes · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the leading cause of epilepsy-related death. SUDEP shares many features with sudden cardiac death and sudden unexplained death in the young and may have a similar genetic contribution. We aim to systematically review the literature on the genetics of SUDEP. Methods and Results PubMed, MEDLINE Epub Ahead of Print, Ovid Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Scopus were searched through April 4, 2017. English language human studies analyzing SUDEP for known sudden death, ion channel and arrhythmia-related pathogenic variants, novel variant discovery, and copy number variant analyses were included. Aggregate descriptive statistics were generated; data were insufficient for meta-analysis. A total of 8 studies with 161 unique individuals were included; mean was age 29.0 (±SD 14.2) years; 61% males; ECG data were reported in 7.5% of cases; 50.7% were found prone and 58% of deaths were nocturnal. Cause included all types of epilepsy. Antemortem diagnosis of Dravet syndrome and autism (with duplication of chromosome 15) was associated with 11% and 9% of cases. The most frequently detected known pathogenic variants at postmortem were in Na
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