When epilepsy masquerades as heart disease
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 88 (6), 167-171
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1990.11716430
Abstract
Preview When a patient has arrhythmia or chest pain, most physicians assume that heart disease is present. In some cases, however, these and other cardiac symptoms follow a seizure. Dr Kothari discusses five cardiac manifestations of epilepsy that can easily lead a physician to an incorrect diagnosis unless he or she is alert to this possibility.Keywords
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