Management and long-term outcome in patients presenting with ictal asystole or bradycardia

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1160-1167

  Strzelczyk, Adam ^a   Cenusa, Margarethe ^b   Bauer, Sebastian ^a   Hamer, Hajo M ^a   Mothersill, Ian W ^b   Grunwald, Thomas ^b   Hillenbrand, Barbara ^c   Ebner, Alois ^d   Steinhoff, Bernhard J ^c   Krämer, Günter ^b   Rosenow, Felix ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b SWISS EPILEPSY CENTER   (Switzerland)

^c Epilepsy Center Kork   (Germany)

^d EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic seizures; Bradycardia; Ictal asystole; Pacemaker; SUDEP; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CBZ 1200; CBZ 800; LEV 1500; LEV 2000; LEV 2500; LTG 150; LTG 300; LTG 450; LTG 50; LTG 550; OXC 600; OXC 900; STM 200; TPM 650; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VPA 750; ZNS 200;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; ICTAL ASYSTOLE; ICTAL BRADYCARDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; AGED; BRADYCARDIA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958776321     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02961.x     Document Type: Article

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