Generalized tonic-clonic seizures detected by implantable loop recorder devices: Diagnosing more than cardiac arrhythmias

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 857-861

  Ho, Reginald T ^a   Wicks, Tammi ^a   Wyeth, Dale ^a   Nei, Maromi ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantable loop recorder; Seizure; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE LOOP RECORDER; MALE; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYNCOPE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SEIZURES;

EID: 33745486862     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.03.026     Document Type: Article

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