Sudden neurologic death masquerading as out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death

Neurology

Volumn 87, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 1669-1673

  Kim, Anthony S ^a   Moffatt, Ellen ^b   Ursell, Philip C ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^e   Olgin, Jeffrey ^c   Tseng, Zian H ^d  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^b Office of the Chief Medical Examiner   (United States)

^c Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERTROPHY; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RISK; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SUDDEN DEATH; SUDDEN NEUROLOGIC DEATH; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84991798371     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003238     Document Type: Article

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