Alteration of cardiac function in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: Different roles of EEG-ECG monitoring and spectral analysis of RR variability

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 363-369

  Massetani, Roberto ^a   Strata, Giancarlo ^a   Galli, Renato ^a   Gori, Sara ^a   Gneri, Carlo ^a   Limbruno, Ugo ^a   Santo, Domenica Di ^a   Mariani, Mario ^a   Murri, Luigi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomic disorders; ECG monitoring; Heart rate variability; Sudden unexplained death in patients with epilepsy; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BRAIN; DEATH, SUDDEN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTURE;

EID: 0030901796     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01129.x     Document Type: Article

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