Prolonged implantable electrocardiographic monitoring indicates a high rate of misdiagnosis of epilepsy-REVISE study

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1653-1660

  Petkar, Sanjiv ^a   Hamid, Tahir ^a   Iddon, Pamela ^b   Clifford, Anne ^a   Rice, Nicola ^a   Claire, Richard ^c   McKee, David ^a   Curtis, Nick ^a   Cooper, Paul N ^c   Fitzpatrick, Adam Paul ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b Manchester Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardioinhibition; Convulsive syncope; Epilepsy; Implantable ECG monitoring (ILR); Misdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CLONIC SEIZURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EPILEPSY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTED HEART PACEMAKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SINUS ARREST; SINUS RHYTHM; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868597080     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eus185     Document Type: Article

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