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Subject: Re: Prolactin and Pseudo-fits
Date sent: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:34:50 +0000
I don't know about 'hard evidence', but I remember copying the following
words of wisdom out of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (2nd ed, 1987) some
years ago:
"If serum can be obtained about 20 min after a true seizure, serum
prolactins of four to five times the normal level will be found; the level
returns to normal within 24 hours. Elevated serum prolactins will be found
shortly after true tonic-clonic seizures and complex partial seizures, but
not after simulated seizures, nor after true partial seizures arising in
parts of the brain other than the temporal lobe."
Hope this helps.
Stephen Bangert
Eastbourne Hospitals NHS Trust
01323 413810
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Dr Rick Jones
Director of Chemical Pathology and Immunology
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