Enhanced QT shortening and persistent tachycardia after generalized seizures

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 421-426

  Surges, Rainer ^a   Scott, Catherine A ^a   Walker, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; SUDDEN DEATH; TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 76349116683     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181ccc706     Document Type: Article

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