Long-term cardiac rhythm and repolarization abnormalities in refractory focal and generalized epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Nei, Maromi ^a   Sperling, Michael R ^a   Mintzer, Scott ^a   Ho, Reginald T ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Electrocardiography (ECG); Epilepsy; Generalized seizure; Lennox Gastaut; Sudden unexplained death in epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART REPOLARIZATION ABNORMALITY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865029099     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03561.x     Document Type: Article

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