Premature death, risk factors, and life patterns in dogs with epilepsy

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 754-759

  Berendt, Mette ^a   Gredal, Hanne ^a   Ersbøll, Annette Kjaer ^a   Alving, Jørgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH EPILEPSY CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Canine; Convulsions; Mortality; Seizures; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 34547818741     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/0891-6640(2007)21[754:PDRFAL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Parent JM. Clinical management of canine seizures. Vet Clin North Am (Small Anim Pract) 1988;18:947-963.
2. Bateman SW, Parent JM. Clinical findings, treatment, and outcome of dogs with status epilepticus or cluster seizures: 156 cases (1990-1995). J Am Vet Med Assoc 1999;215:1463-1468.
3. Podell M, Fenner WR, Powers JD. Seizure classification in dogs from a nonreferral-based population. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1995;11:1721-1728.
4. Jaggy A, Bernadini M. Idiopathic epilepsy in 125 dogs: A long-term study. Clinical and electroencephalographic findings. J Small Anim Pract 1998;39:23-29.
5. Berendt M, Gram L. Epilepsy and seizure classification in 63 dogs: A reappraisal of veterinary epilepsy terminology. J Vet Int Med 1999;13:14-20.
6. Licht BG, Licht MH, Harper KM, et al. Clinical presentations of naturally occurring canine seizures: similarities to human seizures. Epilepsy Behav 2002;3:460-470.
7. Berendt M, Gredal H, Alving J. Characteristics and phenomenology of epileptic partial seizures in dogs: Similarities with human seizure semiology. Epilepsy Research 2004;61:167-173.
8. Chandler K. Canine epilepsy: What can we learn from humane seizure disorders? The Vet J 2006;172:207-217,
9. Hauser WA, Annegers JF, Elveback LR. Mortality in patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia 1980;21:399-412.
10. Olaffson E, Hauser WA, Gudmundsson G. Long-term survival of people with unprovoked seizures: A population-based study. Epilepsia 1998;39:89-92.
11. Lindsten H, Nyström L, Forsgren L. Mortality risk in an adult cohort with a newly diagnosed unprovoked epileptic seizure: A population-based study. Epilepsia 2000;41:1469-1473.
12. Day SM, Strauss DJ, Reynolds RJ. Causes of death in remote symptomatic epilepsy. Neurology 2005;65:216-222,
13. Nilsson L, Tomson T, Farahmand BY, et al. Cause-specific mortality in epilepsy: A cohort study of more than 9,000 patients once hospitalized for epilepsy. Epilepsia 1997;38:1062-1068.
14. Proschowsky HF, Rugbjerg H, Ersboll AK. Mortality of purebred and mixed-breed dogs in Denmark. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 2003;58:63-74.
15. Conover WJ. Practical Nonparametric Statistics, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley; 1980.
16. Collett D. Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, 2nd ed. New York: Chapman & Hall/CRC; 2003.
17. Milliken GA, Johnson DE. Analysis of Messy Data. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold; 1984.
18. Cockerell O. The mortality of epilepsy. Curr Opin Neurol 1996;9:93-96.
19. Mohanraj R, Norrie J, Stephen LJ, et al. Mortality in adults with newly diagnosed and chronic epilepsy: A retrospective comparative study. Lancet Neurol 2006;5:481-487.
20. Opeskin K, Berkovic SF. Risk factors for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: A controlled prospective study based on coronors cases. Seizure 2003;12:456-464.
21. Placencia M, Sander JWAS, Roman M, et al. The characteristics of epilepsy in a largely untreated population in rural Ecuador. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994;57:320-325.
22. Cockerell OC, Johnson AL, Sander JWAS, et al. Remission of epilepsy: results from the National General Practice Study of Epilepsy. Lancet 1994;346:140-144.
23. Berendt M, Gredal H, Gam Pedersen L, et al. A crosssectional study of epilepsy in Danish Labrador Retrievers: Prevalence and selected risk factors. J Vet Int Med 2002;16: 262-268.
24. Dayrell-Hart B, Steinberg SA, Van Winkle TJ, et al. Hepatotoxicity of phenobarbital in dogs. 18 cases (1985-1989). J Am Vet Med Assoc 1991;199:1060-1066.
25. Nielsen AC, Agger JF, Ersbell AK. Questionnaires. In: Houe H, Ersbøll AK, Toft N, eds. Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology. Copenhagen: Biofolia; 2004:187-204.