Heart rate variability analysis indicates preictal parasympathetic overdrive preceding seizure-induced cardiac dysrhythmias leading to sudden unexpected death in a patient with epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Jeppesen, Jesper ^a   Fuglsang Frederiksen, Anders ^a   Brugada, Ramon ^b   Pedersen, Birthe ^c   Rubboli, Guido ^c   Johansen, Peter ^d   Beniczky, Sándor ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c DANISH EPILEPSY CENTRE   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Short QT; Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy; Video EEG

Indexed keywords

HARKOSERIDE; OXCARBAZEPINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESUSCITATION; SHORT QT SYNDROME; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPINE POSITION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

HEART RATE VARIABILITY; SHORT QT; SUDDEN UNEXPECTED DEATH IN EPILEPSY; VIDEO-EEG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904403201     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12614     Document Type: Article

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