Cardiac arrhythmias and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: Results of long-term monitoring

Cardiac rhythm and conduction disorders are common in patients with epilepsy and are presumably one of the leading causes of sudden unexpected death. There are only a few published reports on ictal cardiac arrhythmias detected by continuous monitoring, and the majority had a small sample size.

Source: Heart Rhythm - September 7, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Svetlana Serdyuk, Karapet Davtyan, Sergey Burd, Oksana Drapkina, Sergey Boytsov, Evgeniy Gusev, Arpi Topchyan Source Type: research