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Typical age of onset?
-------------------------- Absence seizures |
Age 5-10 yrs
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Percentage of patients with a positive family history?
-------------------------- Absence seizures |
20-40%
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Def?
-------------------------- Complex absence seizure |
Term?
-------------------------- Alteration of consciousness seizure with minor motor automatisms |
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Usual time duration?
-------------------------- Absence seizure |
Usually 10-15 seconds
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How to induce?
-------------------------- Absence seizure |
Hyperventilation for 3-4 minutes
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Phases?
-------------------------- Tonic-clonic seizure |
Tonic phase lasts 10-20 seconds and involves sustained muscle contraction. Clonic phase lasts approx 30 seconds, involves recurrent muscle contractions
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Usual time duration?
-------------------------- Complex partial seizure |
1-3 minutes
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Def?
-------------------------- Temporal lobe syncope |
Term?
-------------------------- Drop attacks associated with complex partial seizures |
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What is the percentage of patients with pseudoseizures who also experience real seizures?
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40%
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Serum test?
-------------------------- Pseudoseizures |
Meaning result of test?
-------------------------- Normal prolactin concentration after a seizure-like episode |
