Differentiating Convulsive Syncope and Epilepsy

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Letters1 May 1992Differentiating Convulsive Syncope and EpilepsyJ.B.P. Stephenson, MA, DMJ.B.P. Stephenson, MA, DMSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-116-9-777 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the Editors: "With the specialization of medicine, neurologists tend to see patients with 'fits' and cardiologists those with 'faints' " (1). It is therefore a pleasure to see a publication on seizures with a cardiologist as first author (2). As a student of anoxic seizures, I venture some questions and criticisms of this useful paper.What was the setting for each seizure and were there likely stimuli for any of them? Was there never an aura? If not, the spontaneous episodes differed from those induced by tilt, in which all had a "brief . . . prodromal phase." Describing...