From brain to heart: a single-centre study of ictal and post-ictal asystole in epilepsy
Abhishek Gohel, Belinda Philip, Akshaya Raman, Rutul Shah, Tejas Shivarthi, Mahima Sriram, Ashok Pillai, Ramaiah Rajeshkannan, Talal Almashaikhi, Navin Mathew, Siby Gopinath · 2026
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Abhishek Gohel and co-authors report heart pauses during seizures at one center in a 2026 study. In some seizures the heart slows or stops for a time, a brain heart effect that can be dangerous. The team set out to describe how it presents, why it is hard to diagnose, and how it is managed, to aid care for people with epilepsy.
Records covered more than fifteen thousand patients who had long video brain monitoring over nearly ten years. Eight patients showed the pause effect, most of them women in their thirties. Slowed heart rate came before nearly all pauses. Many seizures with pauses also showed low movement features. The study links pause length to seizure traits.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Abhishek Gohel, Belinda Philip, Akshaya Raman, Rutul Shah, Tejas Shivarthi, Mahima Sriram, Ashok Pillai, Ramaiah Rajeshkannan, Talal Almashaikhi, Navin Mathew, Siby Gopinath |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |