title: Postictal heart rate oscillations in partial epilepsy.
abstract: We report postictal heart rate oscillations in a heterogeneous group of patients with partial epilepsy. This pattern is marked by the appearance of transient but prominent low-frequency heart rate oscillations (0.01 to 0.1 Hz) immediately after 5 of 11 seizures recorded in 5 patients. This finding may be a marker of neuroautonomic instability and, therefore, may have implications for understanding perturbations of heart rate control associated with partial seizures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Al-Aweel
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Krishnamurthy
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hausdorff
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mietus
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ives
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Schomer
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Goldberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009991:Oscillometry