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Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a witnessed or unwitnessed fatal event, which may include seizures, in patients with epilepsy without evidence of status epilepticus, trauma, drowning, or other toxicologic or anatomic aetiologies, as demonstrated by autopsy (Table 1) [1]. SUDEP may represent a clinical continuum with other conditions leading to sudden death in young people, such as sudden unexpected infant death and sudden infant death syndrome (Table 1) [1].