Video-electrographic and clinical features in patients with ictal asystole

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 434-441

  Schuele, S U ^a,b,c   Bermeo, A C ^a   Alexopoulos, A V ^a   Locatelli, E R ^a   Burgess, R C ^a   Dinner, D S ^a   Foldvary Schaefer, N ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; ICTAL ASYSTOLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; SYNCOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SYNCOPE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 34548094055     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000266595.77885.7f     Document Type: Article

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