Sleep apnea: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment
Sleep apnea: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment By Allan I Pack
2002 | 703 Pages | ISBN: 082470312X | PDF | 7 MB
2002 | 703 Pages | ISBN: 082470312X | PDF | 7 MB
Many patients referred for an epilepsy evaluation actually suffer from one of many conditions that can imitate it. Imitators of epilepsy are a diverse group that involve consideration of many areas of internal medicine, neurology, and psychiatry. The most important imitators of epileptic seizures are dizziness, vertigo, syncope, complicated migraine; and somewhat less frequently sleep disorders, transient cerebral ischemia, paroxysmal movement disorders, endocrine or metabolic dysfunction, delirium, psychiatric conditions or transient global amnesia. Clearly under-recognized are hyperventilati.