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741 patients admitted with acute generalized convulsive seizure, mean age 47.8 years, 40.9% female…
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Post-seizure cTNI elevations may reflect non-ischemic release in vascular-risk patients; leaves open whether routine testing changes management.
Cardiac troponin I elevation occurs in about 6.7% of patients after generalized convulsive seizures without obvious cardiac involvement, particularly in those with vascular risk factors.
Sieweke et al. (2012) studied this question.
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