After being discovered dead in her Pasadena home the day after Christmas, R&B diva Teena Marie is being blamed for a possible grand mal seizure. Dr. Jacqueline French of NYU Medical Center and the American Academy of Neurology noted that issues with breathing or cardiac rhythm are likely to be the cause of SUDEP or sudden unexplained death in epilepsy and that this is often associated with the most powerful seizures.
In spite of this, the exact mechanism by which it causes mortality remains unknown and researchers warn that it is relatively uncommon even among patients who have seizures.
According to French’s interview with MedPage Today, confirmed by ABC News “When seizures aren’t controlled, there’s a small risk of sudden unexplained death,” “But 99 percent of the time when people have a seizure, that doesn’t occur.”
Singer’s possible epilepsy treatment raises questions. Friends say she stopped using diazepam (Valium) because of the adverse effects and then switched to herbal medicines as per reports.
According to the reports she has experienced other types of seizures, including another grand mal only last month. Some say she was so afraid of having another one that she insisted on having company in the bedroom at all times.
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Even in the general population, withdrawal from a benzodiazepine like Valium can cause seizures, according to Dr. Shlomo Shinnar of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He concluded that the likelihood of convulsions for an epileptic patient increased significantly after discontinuing medication used to control seizures.
“If you have a seizure disorder and you stop taking your medications, then you increase your risk of seizure and that can happen the next day, two weeks later, or two months later,” he told MedPage Today.
Shinnar and a coworker just revealed in the New England Journal of Medicine that the mortality rates of people who were diagnosed with epilepsy as children are significantly higher than those of the general population. However, even among patients who had been in remission without medicine for many years, about 10% of these deaths were unexpected and unexplained.
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