Stretch syncope: Reflex vasodepressor faints easily mistaken for epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 450-453

  Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios Georgios ^a   Randall, Marc ^a   Kandler, Rosalind H ^a   Grunewald, Richard A ^a   Harkness, Kirsty ^a   Reuber, Markus ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Misdiagnosis; Stretch syncope; Transcranial ultrasound; Valsalva

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; SULPIRIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BREATH HOLDING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; STRETCH SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE; TENDON REFLEX; TORTICOLLIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; REFLEX; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TELEMETRY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952739735     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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