Sudden cardiac death is associated both with epilepsy and with use of antiepileptic medications

Heart

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-22

  Bardai, Abdennasser ^a,b,c   Blom, Marieke T ^a   Van Noord, Charlotte ^c   Verhamme, Katia M ^c   Sturkenboom, Miriam C J M ^c   Tan, Hanno L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; REGISTER; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84919731231     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305664     Document Type: Article

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