Interictal electrocardiographic and echocardiographic changes in patients with generalized tonic-clonic seizures

International Heart Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 171-175

  Ramadan, Mahmoud M ^a   El Shahat, Nader ^a   Omar, Ashraf A ^a   Gomaa, Mohamed ^a   Belal, Tamer ^a   Sakr, Sherif A ^a   Abu Hegazy, Mohammad ^a   Hakim, Hazem ^a   Selim, Heba A ^b   Omar, Sabry A ^c  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial; Autonomic; Epilepsy; QT interval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; DEATH, SUDDEN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84879061271     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.54.171     Document Type: Article

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