Affiliation:
1. Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Formerly Department of Forensic Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
Abstract
A case of a suspicious sudden death in a 19-year-old Caucasian female epileptic is presented The brain showed characteristic lesions of tuberous sclerosis. In most sudden deaths in idiopathic epilepsy no causative lesion is found in the brain A review of the past five years' cases attributed to sudden deaths in epilepsy from our department is presented, with particular reference to findings which might be construed as suspicious, e.g., signs of asphyxia and bruising in neck muscles, and to findings which support the diagnosis, e.g. biting of the tongue, voiding of urine, low levels of medication.
Subject
Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects
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