Temporal lobe syncope: clinical variants

Clinical EEG (electroencephalography)
D E Jacome

Abstract

Temporal lobe syncope (TLS) is a term coined by Landolt. Characteristically, the patient has psychomotor and drop attacks, and the interictal electroencephalogram (EEG) shows temporal lobe epileptic abnormalities. TLS is synonymous with type III complex partial seizures (CPSs) in the Delgado Escueta classification. Several variants of TLS can be recognized including atonic akinetic, simple akinetic, atonic, atonic-tonic complex (automatisms), sexual seizures, stress-induced convulsions, and gelastic atonic seizures. TLS must be distinguished from drop attacks of vertebrobasilar insufficiency and associated EEG abnormalities, and from hereditary tachyarrhythmias mimicking stress-induced convulsions. Epileptic falls and drop attacks are discarded by ictal EEG recordings. Recognition of TLS variants is important in the prospective evaluation of the surgical treatment of epilepsy given the past conflicting reports on the differential outcome of surgically treated CPSs. TLS is an attractive clinical term, easy to remember, and with pathophysiologic relevance to the clinician confronting the patient with a history of syncope and whose EEG discloses temporal lobe paroxysmal activity. The detailed ictal electrophysiology of TLS is unkn...Continue Reading

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