Elevations of troponin in patients with epileptic seizures? What do they mean?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 325-326

  Parvulescu Codrea, Simona ^a   Britton, Jeffrey W ^b   Bruce, Charles J ^c   Cascino, Gregory D ^b   Jaffe, Allan S ^c  

^a Division of Epilepsy ^*

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Infarction; Medical emergencies; Myocardial; Pulmonary emboli; Seizures; Troponin

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TROPONIN;

EID: 33745886525     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960290713     Document Type: Article

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