Death in epileptic people: a review of Manitoba's medical examiner's cases.

Studies of cause-specific mortality show that deaths of epileptic people can be classified into those directly or indirectly related to epilepsy; those related to the underlying pathology giving rise to epilepsy; and those unrelated to either epilepsy or its causes. In this descriptive retrospective study, medical examiner's cases that occurred in Manitoba, Canada during 2004 were reviewed. One hundred and seventeen cases (4.