Cardiac asystole in epilepsy: Clinical and neurophysiologic features

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-185

  Rocamora, R ^a,b   Kurthen, M ^a   Lickfett, L ^a   Von Oertzen, J ^a   Elger, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asystole; Electrocardiography; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; SUDEP

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SUDDEN DEATH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0037318986     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.15101.x     Document Type: Article

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