Periictal heart rate variability analysis suggests long-term postictal autonomic disturbance in epilepsy

European Journal of Neurology : the Official Journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies
V TothJ Janszky

Abstract

One of the possible pathomechanisms of sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a postictal dysregulation of autonomic nervous system. We performed a heart rate variability (HRV) analysis of the periictal state to analyze whether a cardiac autonomic disturbance exists after an epileptic seizure. We included 31 periictal video-EEG-ECG recordings of 31 patients with epilepsy who had consecutively undergone pre-surgical evaluation. Nine generalized tonic-clonic (GTCS), 15 complex partial, and seven simple motor seizures were included. HRV was evaluated by analyzing 5-min-long ECG epochs, sampling from baseline, direct preictal, early-postictal (<15 min after the seizure), and late-postictal (5-6 h after the seizure) periods. The heart rate was elevated immediately after the seizures, but 5-6 h postictally returned to the baseline level. Time-domain components of HRV decreased after the seizure and this decrease lasted for 5-6 h. Low-frequency power decreased in the early-postictal phase and high-frequency power of HRV dropped in the late-postictal phase. GTCS had an impact on short-term but not on long-term postictal HRV decrease. We found decreased HRV immediately after the seizures, which lasted at least 5-6 h postictally, indicating...Continue Reading

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