Cardiac dysrhythmia that simulates seizure disorder in two children.
Cardiac dysrhythmia can present signs and symptoms of a seizure disorder and sometimes they are clinically indistinguishable. We present two children with a presumed seizure disorder but also with an underlying and associated cardiac problem. Therefore, we suggest that both conditions must be considered concomitantly, and that each patient with a newly diagnosed seizure disorder requires both neurological and cardiological evaluation.
Turanli
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Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara.
Apak
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D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis*