Myocardial infarction following brief convulsive seizures

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2453-2454

  Chin, Peter S ^a,b   Branch, Kelley R ^a   Becker, Kyra J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; THORAX PAIN; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 11144290046     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000148608.92290.EB     Document Type: Article

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