Table 5 Correlations between heart rate changes and seizure semiology, lateralization, and ictal onset zone
From: Frequency of peri-ictal apnea and cardiac arrhythmias in epileptic seizures
| Arrhythmia | Chi-Square | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tachycardia | Bradycardia | |||||
| N | % | N | % | χ2 | P value | |
| Type of seizure semiology | ||||||
| FOIA motor onset with automatism | 9 | 28.13 | 3 | 100.00 | 45.688 | <0.001* |
| FOIA nonmotor onset | 6 | 18.75 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| FOIA motor onset hyperkinetic or FOA motor onset tonic or cloni | 4 | 12.50 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| FBTCS | 7 | 21.88 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Absence | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| GTCs | 2 | 6.25 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Non convulsive seizure | 4 | 12.50 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Ictal onset zone | ||||||
| Frontal | 6 | 18.75 | 0 | 0.00 | 64.630 | <0.001* |
| Temporal | 24 | 75.00 | 3 | 100.00 | ||
| Parietal | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Generalized | 2 | 6.25 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Seizure lateralization | ||||||
| Left | 17 | 53.13 | 0 | 0.00 | 26.049 | <0.001* |
| Right | 13 | 40.63 | 3 | 100.00 | ||
| Generalized | 2 | 6.25 | 0 | 0.00 | ||