Epilepsy-associated long-term mortality after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To elucidate the epilepsy-associated causes of death and subsequent excess long-term mortality among 12-month survivors of subarachnoid hemorrhage from saccular intracranial aneurysm (SIA-SAH).

Methods

The Kuopio SIA Database (kuopioneurosurgery.fi) includes all SIA-SAH patients admitted to the Kuopio University Hospital from its defined catchment population in Eastern Finland. The study cohort consists of 779 patients, admitted from 1995 to 2007, who were alive at 12 months after SIA-SAH. Their use of reimbursable antiepileptic drugs and the causes of death (ICD-10) were fused from the Finnish national registries from 1994 to 2014.

Results

The 779 12-month survivors were followed up until death (n = 197) or December 31, 2014, a median of 12.0 years after SI

SUBMITTER: Huttunen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5513818 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature