The Reveal in the Investigation of Syncope and Epilepsy (REVISE) study found that one in eight patients who were previously thought to have epilepsy or in whom this diagnosis was in doubt actually had ...

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 ...

A retrospective observational study found that 22% of cases of sudden cardiac death were due to sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS). Syncope, seizure-like episodes and changes in ...

I have a 10-year-old Boston terrier that has been pretty healthy. However, over the past two weeks he has had two episodes where he was walking normally and then fell over. He seems to kick his legs a ...

New syncope guidelines released this week by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) boost certain recommendations and demote others, but according to members of the writing group, they represent the ...

A 24-year-old female patient presented with a history of recurrent seizures that commenced at 16 years of age, several weeks after experiencing substantial lower back trauma. The pattern of seizures ...

Hair-grooming syncope causes sufferers to endure epilepsy-like seizures when they have their hair styled. Unlike with epilepsy, these seizures are unrelated to the firing of neurones in the brain.

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 ...