Relation between ictal asystole and cardiac sympathetic dysfunction shown by MIBG-SPECT

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-129

  Kerling, F ^a   Dutsch M ^a   Linke, R ^a   Kuwert, T ^a   Stefan, H ^a,b,c   Hilz, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asystole; Cardiac MIBG SPECT; Cardiac sympathetic denervation; Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; CARBAMAZEPINE; LAMOTRIGINE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NORADRENALIN; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DENERVATION; HEART DISEASE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; ICTAL ASYSTOLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADULT; DEATH, SUDDEN; DENERVATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 67651219276     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01135.x     Document Type: Article

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