Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: " Differentiation of convulsive syncope from epilepsy with an implantable loop record

It has been estimated that up to three percent of the US population suffers from recurrent convulsive episodes that are usually thought to be seizures due to epilepsy (1, 2). However recent studies have suggested that as many as 20% to 30% of these individuals have an occult cardiovascular cause of their convulsive events. A variety of cardiac rhythm disturbances will create a state of cerebral hypoxia that can be manifested by convulsive activity that may be difficult to distinguish from epileptic seizure activity. Indeed, the difficulty in distinguishing epileptic seizures from other conditions that can cause convulsive activity has been long recognized (3, 4).