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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2005; 03(04): 257-260
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557281
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557281
Case Report
Prolonged QT syndrome triggered by swimming: A mimicking cause of seizures not to be missed
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Publication History
03 November 2004
15 February 2005
Publication Date:
29 July 2015 (online)
Abstract
Epilepsy can sometimes be mimicked in children by uncommon conditions. We present a 6-year-old boy with congenital deafness and long QT syndrome (Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome) triggered by swimming. He had bradycardia and a history of early seizures and deaths in the family. He had been misdiagnosed and treated as idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy for three years without control.