New epilepsy seizure at high altitude without signs of acute mountain sickness or high altitude cerebral edema

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-83

  Daleau, Pascal ^a,b   Morgado, Daniel C ^c   Iriarte, Carlos A ^c   Desbiens, Richard ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c L'Enfant Jésus Hospital ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Epileptiform discharges; Family history; Hyperventilation; Sojourners to high altitude

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FAMILY HISTORY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BRAIN EDEMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 33645644308     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.7.81     Document Type: Article

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