This 22-year-old woman presented for evaluation of syncope. Several weeks previously, she was watching the end of the movie Hannibal when Dr. Lecter was slicing pieces of the exposed brain of a ...
Seizures can disrupt the autonomic nervous system, potentially leading to cardiac arrhythmias, which are abnormal heart rhythms. Cardiac arrhythmias can cause convulsive syncope, a condition ...
THE present emergency has provided an unusually abundant opportunity for the study of syncope, or fainting, in blood donors. Although not in itself serious, fainting results in loss of time to the ...
From "Treatment of Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children and Adults" Epilepsy Currents 16.1 January/February 2016. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...
The baseline clinical characteristics are shown in Table I. Neurologists referred 64 patients, but nine were excluded from the study by exclusion criteria. The study included 55 consecutive patients: ...