Apnoea and seizures.
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Apnoea and seizures.
We report two infants with near miss sudden infant death syndrome events exhibiting seizure disorders after caffeine treatment, suggesting there is an infant subgroup diagnosed as near miss sudden infant death syndrome who have apnoea possibly with seizures whose seizure threshold may be lowered by central nervous system stimulants like caffeine.
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.61.8.791