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When do you pursue further epilepsy workup in a patient with unexplained falls?

Does your experience track with this article's suggestion that unexplained falls may be a heralding event to first-time seizure? Wang et al., PMID 42848964
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Neurology · University of Rochester Medical Center
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In practice, I think I rarely see patients who have experienced an unexplained fall. Most of the time, I'd be asked to see a patient after their first presentation with a seizure, and we might uncover the history of the unexplained fall in our first visit. If I got a call from an emergency departmen...

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