Solve exciting clinical cases specific to your field of interest via Docplexus’ clinical case challenge. In today's Case Challenge, join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer the question. A 10-year-old boy with a history of multiple fainting spells is brought to an outpatient pediatric clinic by his parents. These spells are sometimes complicated by generalized tonic-clonic "seizurelike" activity.
The patient first started experiencing these attacks 8 months ago. His mother has noticed that the fainting most often occurs either in the early morning, after the sounding of an alarm clock, or during some type of sports activity. The child states that the seizures occur without warning, and they are sometimes associated with urinary incontinence or vomiting. According to the patient's family, the child remains unconscious for about 1 minute, after which he awakens abruptly, with no…
