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Comparison of clinical and electrophysiological characteristics between ictal and cardiac asystole encountered during video-EEG monitoring Volume 21, numéro 4, August 2019

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Auteurs
1 Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy Care, Department of Neurology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
2 Department of Neurology, Wockardt Hospital, Central Mumbai
3 Department of Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
4 Present address: Department of Neurosciences, Avitis Institute of Medical sciences, Nemmara, Palakkad, India
* Correspondence: Kurupath Radhakrishnan Department of Neurosciences, Avitis Institute of Medical sciences, Nemmara-678 508, Palakkad, Kerala, India

Aims

Differentiation between syncope secondary to epileptic seizures and cardiac disease in patients displaying transient loss of consciousness associated with convulsive movements is a diagnostic challenge both for neurologists and cardiologists. In such patients, prolonged video-EEG monitoring not only helps in identifying asystole as the cause of syncope, but also in categorizing asystole as primarily cardiac in origin (cardiac asystole) and secondary to epileptic seizures (ictal asystole). We carried out this study to ascertain the prevalence of asystole in an epilepsy monitoring unit, and to contrast the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics between ictal asystole and cardiac asystole.