Preventing tomorrow's sudden cardiac death in epilepsy today: What should physicians know about this?

Clinics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 389-394

  Scorza, Fulvio A ^a   Colugnati, Diego B ^a   Pansani, Aline P ^a   Sonoda, Eliza Y F ^a   Arida, Ricardo M ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Heart; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749154644     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1807-59322008000300017     Document Type: Review

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