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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the difficulties of my profession is that my patients cannot speak to me. I (Perry Jameson) totally depend on Mom and Dad to describe symptoms. For certain problems, parents can get so worried ...

‘The eyes see what the brain knows.’ This old adage, famous in the echelons of medicine, highlights why syncope is important in clinical medicine, for it is often missed while evaluating a patient.

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 ...

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.