Cough syncope misinterpreted as epileptic seizure

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-224

  Gelisse, Philippe ^a   Genton, Pierre ^b  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE SAINT PAUL   (France)

Author keywords

Cough syncope; Tussive syncope

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; COUGH SYNCOPE; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; OBESITY; SEIZURES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SYNCOPE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 53349163704     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2008.0204     Document Type: Article

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