Postictal breathing pattern distinguishes epileptic from nonepileptic convulsive seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 132-137

  Azar, Nabil J ^a   Tayah, Tania F ^a   Wang, Lily ^a   Song, Yanna ^a   Abou Khalil, Bassel W ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MCN   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing pattern; Epilepsy semiology; Generalized tonic clonic seizures; Nonepileptic seizures; Postictal manifestations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTICTAL BREATHING PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNORING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATION; SEIZURES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 37549055455     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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