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Five hospitalized elderly patients had one or more self-limited episodes of unresponsiveness that could not be explained by metabolic,structural, convulsive,or psychiatric disorders.They accounted for approximately 2%of cases referred to us for evaluation of coma.Despite some heterogeneity, shared clinical features in these patients suggest an age-related disorder of arousal that may be more common than is generally appreciated. |
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