Late Onset Ictal Asystole in Refractory Epilepsy

Abstract

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY report a 17-year-old boy with chronic intractable epilepsy and vagus nerve stimulator who developed ictal asystole many years after the onset of epilepsy.

Keywords

• mental retardation
• supraventricular tachycardia
• extension seizures