G40
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Clinical data will be collected retrospectively from the patient files and from the EEG program Profusion. This is exclusively data from examinations that the patient received for clinical re
(2) at least 1 hour after the last clinical seizure (excluding tonic-clonic seizures) or the last subclinical seizure
and (3) at least 1 hour before the next clinical seizure.
Sponsors
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 Years to 14 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children and adolescents between the ages of 0 and 14 years with a diagnosis of epilepsy, who received video-EEG-monitoring from 1999 to 2018 at the Freiburg Epilepsy Center for clinical reasons. At least one seizure must have occurred during the monitoring. Furthermore, at least a 10-minute interictal period prior to the analyzed seizure must have been recorded in the examined patients in order to obtain a meaningful measurement of the basal heart rate.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria include age over 14 years, the occurrence of no or only subclinical seizures and a diagnosed independent cardiac disease.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Detailed description and analysis of HRV in children and adolescents with epilepsy. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Identification of a subgroup of patients who are statistically more likely to have lower HRV and may therefore be at increased risk of SUDEP. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactJulia Jacobs-Le Van
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
Outcome results
None listed