Abstract：
:Cardiac arrhythmia may be one of the major causes of sudden unexpected death in children with epilepsy. We assessed drug-induced QT prolongation to establish whether the use of antiepileptic drugs contributes to sudden unexpected death. A total of 178 children with epilepsy (93 males and 85 females, with ages ranging from 1 month to 18.9 years; mean age 7.0 +/- 4.1 years) were involved in the study. The QT intervals were manually measured and corrected using Fridericia's formula (QTFc = QT/RR(1/3)). The mean corrected QT interval (QTc) of 152 children on antiepileptic drugs during the study period was 0.40 +/- 0.03 s, and for 26 age-matched, antiepileptic drug-free control patients it was 0.40 +/- 0.03 s. The mean QTc of the children with monotherapy was 0.40 +/- 0.03 s for the valproate group (n = 42), 0.39 +/- 0.02 s for the carbamazepine/oxcarbazepine group (n = 34), and 0.40 +/- 0.02 s for the topiramate group (n = 26), respectively. There was no statistically significant difference among the groups as assessed by analysis of variance. In addition, there was no significant difference between the monotherapy group (n = 109; 0.40 +/- 0.02 s) and the polytherapy group (n = 43; 0.39 +/- 0.03 s). Major antiepileptic drugs may not precipitate prolongation of the QT interval into sudden unexpected death in children with epilepsy, however further studies are required.
journal_name
Pediatr Neuroljournal_title
Pediatric neurologyauthors
Kwon S,Lee S,Hyun M,Choe BH,Kim Y,Park W,Cho Ydoi
10.1016/S0887-8994(03)00405-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-02-01 00:00:00pages
99-101issue
2eissn
0887-8994issn
1873-5150pii
S0887899403004053journal_volume
30pub_type
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