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Incidence and Types of Cardiac Arrhythmias in the Peri-Ictal Period in Patients Having a Generalized Convulsive Seizure

  • 0From the Departament de Medicina (L.V.), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; NINDS Center for SUDEP Research (CSR) (L.V., G.C., J.P.H., S.J.O., M.O.-U., B.T., O.M., N.J.H., J.S.H., M.R.S.R., N.L., S.T., R.K.S., D.F., M.N., C.A.S., B.G., S.U.S., R.M.H., B.D., L.M.B., O.D., G.B.R., G.-Q.Z., S.D.L.), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Department of Neurology (L.V.), Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Division of Cardiology (C.Y.M.), Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, and Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (C.Y.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Department of Neurology (G.C., J.P.H., S.J.O., M.O.-U., B.T., O.M., N.J.H., J.S.H., M.R.S.R., N.L., S.T., G.-Q.Z., S.D.L.), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (R.K.S., B.G., G.B.R.), Iowa City; NYU Langone School of Medicine (D.F., O.D.), New York; Sidney Kimmel Medical College (M.N.), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Institute of Neurology (C.A.S., B.D.), University College London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology (S.U.S.), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Department of Neurobiology and the Brain Research Institute (R.M.H.), and Department of Neurobiology (J.A.O.), University of California, Los Angeles; and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (L.M.B.), Los Angeles, CA.
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June 13, 2024

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