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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 7.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2009 Apr 6;50(8):1995–1998. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02073.x

Table 2.

Causes of Death in Control and SZ-KN animals

Controls
(N=78)		 SZ-KN
(N=20)
Cardiopulmonary 18* 1
Infection 19 12
Gastrointestinal 13* 0
Trauma 10 4
Other 18 3

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seven control animals succumbed to congestive heart failure due to a chronic viral encephalomyocarditis and three to infectious gastroenteritis, SZ-KN seizure animals with a known cause of death, Other includes control animals that died from cancer (2), coagulopathies (1), diabetes (1), hypo- or hyperthermia (7), iatrogenic causes (4), pregnancy related complications (2), kidney disease (1), and SZ-KN animals that died from pregnancy related complications (1), hypothermia (1) and an eroded esophagus (1).