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Supraventricular Tachycardia During Status Epilepticus in Dravet Syndrome: A Link Between Brain and Heart?
Pediatric neurology - 1 Mar 2016
Daverio Marco, Ciccone Ornella, Boniver Clementina, De Palma Luca, Corrado Domenico, Vecchi Marilena
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The possibility that epileptic seizures and arrhythmias are different clinical manifestations of a common channelopathy is an interesting but unproved hypothesis. Patients with Dravet syndrome show heart rate variability and affected individuals with arrhythmias have also been documented. The possibility that a genetic mutation affecting sodium channel functions may predispose to both Dravet syndrome...
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