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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2005; 03(04): 257-260
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557281
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Prolonged QT syndrome triggered by swimming: A mimicking cause of seizures not to be missed

Abdullah S. Al Jarallah
a   Department of Pediatrics, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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03 November 2004

15 February 2005

Publication Date:
29 July 2015 (online)

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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.

Keywords

Prolonged QT syndrome - seizures - arrhythmia - deafness - swimming - electrocardiography