What is known about the mechanisms underlying SUDEP?

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2008, Pages 93-98

  So, Elson L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Epilepsy; Heart rate; Respiratory arrest; Seizures; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LUNG EDEMA; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEATH, SUDDEN; EPILEPSY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES;

EID: 57249103562     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01932.x     Document Type: Review

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