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Fits and Faints (Hardcover)
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Fits and Faints (Hardcover)
Series: Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press), 109
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This book is concerned with one of the major areas of misdiagnosis
in medicine today. It has been estimated that as many as thirty
percent of children typed as 'epileptic' when presenting with loss
of consciousness, falls or other paroxysmal episodes have, in fact,
non-epileptic attacks. Yet becauseof the stigma attached to this
label, and the frequent side effects of anti-epileptic drugs, it is
important that the alternative etiological mechanisms be
recognized. The most common of these conditions, the vagalmediated
anoxic seizure or fainting fit, is so frequent that it will be
encountered by anyone involved in the practice of clinical medicine
in its widest sense. These seizures are discussed in depth using
original data and extensively reviewing the literature. Many other
less common, but nonetheless important, varieties of fits, faints
and 'funny turns' are self-induced by a Valsalva maneuver, and
motor events ranging from day-dreaming to the effects of
suffocation and brain swelling. As Jean Aicardi writes in his
foreword to this volume: 'Over 140 case histories ... bring the
flavor of real life into an exhaustive, yet highly readable account
... This monograph is undoubtedly the most comprehensive source of
information available about the various types of anoxic attacks,
their clinical and EEG features, mechanisms and prognosis ... This
is a delightful book that anyone involved in clinical medicine in
general and child neurology in particular will enjoy reading.'
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