Characteristics of deceased subjects transported to a postmortem imaging center due to unusual death related to epilepsy.
Yoshiki ItoNobuhiro HataSatoshi MaesawaTakafumi TaneiTomotaka IshizakiManabu MutohMiki HashidaYutaka KobayashiRyuta SaitoPublished in: Epilepsia open (2024)
The prevalence of epilepsy in individuals experiencing unusual death was higher than in the general population. Despite PMI studies, no definitive cause of death was identified in a significant proportion of cases. The high troponin T levels may be explained by long intervals between death and examination or by higher incidence of myocardial damage at the time of death.