Electrocardiographic features of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2016, Pages e135-e139

  Chyou, Janice Y ^a   Friedman, Daniel ^b   Cerrone, Marina ^b   Slater, William ^b   Guo, Yu ^b   Taupin, Daniel ^b   O'Rourke, Sean ^a   Priori, Silvia G ^b,c,d   Devinsky, Orrin ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

All epilepsy seizures; Cardiac; Electrocardiogram; Risk factors in epidemiology; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC CHANNELOPATHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIXED SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 84977587904     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.13411     Document Type: Article

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