Background: Patients with loss of consciousness and convulsion often have the diagnosis of epilepsy despite normal electroencephalograms (EEGs). Objective: To evaluate the proportion of patients ...

Patients commonly present with syncope at emergency departments and other facilities for urgent care. Syncope is understood by physicians to be a transient, self-terminating period of cerebral ...

Fainting, medically known as syncope, is a condition that may need immediate medical attention. The causes of fainting may range from mild to severe conditions. Fainting is the temporary loss of ...

Dr. Nathan C. Praschan (Psychiatry): A 27-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of convulsions. The patient had been in his usual state of health until 2 years before this admission, when ...

Extract: In a cohort of 18,500 newborn infants, those who had experienced one or more convulsions were studied. Data were available for the unaffected as well as for the affected children. All ...

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: ...