MRI and pathology correlations in the medulla in sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP): a postmortem study

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) likely arises as a result of autonomic dysfunction around the time of a seizure. In vivo MRI studies report volume reduction in the medulla and other brainstem autonomic regions. Our aim, in a pathology series, is to correlate regional quantitative features on 9.4T MRI with pathology measures in medullary regions.Forty-seven medullae from 18 SUDEP, 18 nonepilepsy controls and 11 epilepsy controls were...