Epilepsy and the heart

Epigraph articles:

Epilepsy and the heart: Intersecting pathways of neurological and cardiovascular risk

The brain-heart connection: Seeking consensus on identifying and treating ictal asystole

Living in the gap between neurology and cardiology: Rebecca’s story

Sharp Waves episodes:

The epileptic heart: Dr. Trudy Pang and Dr. Richard Verrier

Heart health, epilepsy, and SUDEP: Dr. Katia Lin and Dr. Guilherme Fialho

Epilepsia and Epilepsia Open articles:

Intersection of epilepsy and cardiac health: Insights from electrocardiography and syndromic associations (Epilepsia 2025) Open access

Epilepsy-heart syndrome: Concept, clinical context, and opportunity for integrated care. (Epilepsia 2025)

Vascular risk factors as predictors of epilepsy in older age: The Framingham Heart Study. (Epilepsia 2021)

Epileptic heart: A clinical syndromic approach. (Epilepsia 2021)

Cardiac structural and functional abnormalities in epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Epilepsia Open 2023) Open access

Epileptic Disorders articles:

Identifying patients with epilepsy at high risk of cardiac death: signs, risk factors and initial management of high risk of cardiac death. Epileptic Disord. 2021 Feb 1;23(1):17-39. Open access

Ictal asystole during epileptic seizures: A case report and narrative review. Epileptic Disord. 2023 Aug;25(4):562-566.

Changes in heart rate during the peri-ictal period in focal epilepsy. Epileptic Disord. 2022 Oct 1;24(5):906-916.