Healio (8/26, Ernst) reports, “Patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures have a standardized mortality ratio 2.5 times greater than the general population and die at a rate similar to patients with drug-resistant epilepsy,” investigators concluded after examining “mortality rates among patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures who were admitted for video-EEG monitoring.” The findings of the 5,508-patient study were published online in the journal Neurology.
Related Links:
— “Diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures has ‘implications for future mortality’, “Julia Ernst, Healio, August 26, 2020