A clinical and pathological study in patients with sudden unexpected death in Epilepsy

Acta Epileptologica

Table 2 Pathological findings of SUDEP patients

Case	Brain	Lungs	Heart	Other organs
1	brain edema with slight cell loss	infiltrates in pulmonary alveoli, pulmonary interstitial edema	slight myocardial cell edema with fat cell immersion	normal
2	brain edema, gliosis	pulmonary interstitial edema, fibrosis with remarkable inflammatory cell infiltration	low-grade swelling myocardial cells	normal
3	swelling neurons, gliosis, loss of purkinje cells,	the exudates in pulmonary alveoli, pulmonary interstitial edema.		normal
4	brain edema, gliosis	the exudates of the lung alveoli and pulmonary interstitial edema	myocardial cell showed swelling	immersion of inflammatory cells in kidneys; hepatic lobules was disarranged with low-grade hepatic fibrosis
5	neuron edema, gliosis	the exudates and scanty hemorrhage in pulmonary alveoli	normal	a small number of inflammatory cell immersion in the liver
6	brain edema, neuronal loss	pulmonary edema	normal	normal
7	brain edema	pulmonary edema		normal
8	gliosis, brain edema,	pulmonary edema	normal	low grade hepatic swelling
9	brain edema	pulmonary edema	normal	Normal
10	brain edema, gliosis	pulmonary edema	normal	Normal
11	brain edema	the exudates of the lung alveoli	myocardial fibrosis	Normal

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