Cardiac arrest due to partial epileptic seizures
Liedholm, L.J.; Gudjonsson, O.
Neurology 42(4): 824-829
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3878 PMID: 1565237 Document Number: 403874
The clinical distinction between cardiovascular and epileptic causes of loss of consciousness is sometimes difficult, but becomes more complicated when a primary epileptic seizure secondarily causes a cardiac arrest. This has been reported previously in only eight patients. We report an additional patient with cardiac arrest during a mesiobasal left temporal lobe seizure discharge.