Electrocardiographic changes at the onset of epileptic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 348-354

  Leutmezer, Fritz ^a   Schernthaner, Christiana ^a   Lurger, Stefanie ^a   Pötzelberger, Klaus ^b   Baumgartner, Christoph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomic seizures; Electrocardiographic changes; Focal epilepsy; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEART RATE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RR INTERVAL; SCALP; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TACHYCARDIA; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0037344062     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.34702.x     Document Type: Article

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