title: Short-term mortality and prognostic factors related to status epilepticus.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Status epilepticus (SE) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, and there is some controversy concerning predictive indicators of outcome. Our main goal was to determine mortality and to identify factors associated with SE prognosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  This prospective study in a tertiary-care university hospital, included 105 patients with epileptic seizures lasting more than 30 minutes. Mortality was defined as death during hospital admission.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The case-fatality rate was 36.2%, which was higher than in previous studies. In univariate analysis, mortality was associated with age, previous epilepsy, complex focal seizures; etiology, recurrence, and refractoriness of SE; clinical complications, and focal SE. In multivariate analysis, mortality was associated only with presence of clinical complications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mortality associated with SE was higher than reported in previous studies, and was not related to age, specific etiology, or SE duration. In multivariate analysis, mortality was independently related to occurrence of medical complications.
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernando Gustavo
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Stelzer
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Guilherme de Oliveira
authors.initials: Gde O
authors.lastname: Bustamante
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sander
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Americo Ceiki
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Regina Maria França
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Fernandes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012737:Sex Factors; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers; D055815:Young Adult