Ventricular Tachycardia Imitating Epileptic Seizures

Min-Ho Park; Hye-Yeon Won; Dong-Gyu Im; Kyoung-Min Byeon; Jae-Hyeok Heo

doi:10.14253/KJCN.2015.17.2.80

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Park, Won, Im, Byeon, and Heo: Ventricular Tachycardia Imitating Epileptic Seizures

Original Article

Korean J Community Nutr 2015;17(2):80-81.

Published online: 18 December 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14253/KJCN.2015.17.2.80

Ventricular Tachycardia Imitating Epileptic Seizures

Min-Ho Park¹, Hye-Yeon Won¹, Dong-Gyu Im¹, Kyoung-Min Byeon², Jae-Hyeok Heo¹

¹Department of Neurology, Seoul Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

²Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Address for correspondence; Jae-Hyeok Heo Department of Neurology, Seoul Medical Center, 156 Sinnae-ro, Jungrang-gu, Seoul 02053, Korea Tel: +82-2-2276-8669 Fax: +82-2-2276-8539 E-mail: drjae93@gmail.com

Received 24 September 2015 Revised 28 October 2015 Accepted 30 October 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Syncopes are the most common non-epileptic attacks mimicking epileptic seizures. Among them, cardiogenic syncope is potentially life threatening. A 49 year old man was refered for the recurrent episodes of loss of consciousness with tonic posture and upward eyes deviation. The electrocardiogram showed polymorphologic ventricular tachycardia during attacks, which normalized after that. He was treated with isoproterenol and symptoms subsided. Here, we report a case of ventricular tachycardia manifested as epileptic seizures. (Korean J Clin Neurophysiol 2015;17:80-81)

Keywords: Cardiogenic, Syncope, Seizure

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Fig. 1.

Holter monitoring shows polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.

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