Refractory Seizures Linked to Cardiac Arrhythmias, Ischemia

WASHINGTON — Patients with refractory epilepsy may be at increased risk for cardiac arrhythmias and resultant cardiac ischemia during seizures, as well as interictal sinus rhythm pauses, Dr. Maromi Nei reported in a poster at the joint annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.