Further Actions Are Needed to Prevent Maternal Deaths From Epilepsy

Published on Thursday, 14 December 2017 Post

Marian Knight, Bryn Kemp and Stephen McCall published a letter last week emphasising that maternal deaths related to epilepsy are preventable.

Anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy should be optimised and a specialist referral should always be sought in women with epilepsy.

Read the letter, published in JAMA Neurology. More information regarding these findings are reported in the latest MBRRACE-UK Report.