Relationship between seizure episode and sudden cardiac arrest in patients with epilepsy: A community-based study

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 912-916

  Stecker, Eric C ^b   Reinier, Kyndaron ^a   Uy Evanado, Audrey ^a   Teodorescu, Carmen ^a   Chugh, Harpriya ^a   Gunson, Karen ^b   Jui, Jonathan ^b   Chugh, Sumeet S ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Death; Epilepsy; Seizures; Sudden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOMEGALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SEIZURE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AUTOPSY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EPILEPSY; SEIZURES;

EID: 84891518315     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000544     Document Type: Article

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