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Seizures inhospitalized cocaine users

Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. (Drs. Choy-Kwong and Lipton)
Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. (Dr. Lipton)
Headache Unit, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. (Dr. Lipton)

We reviewed the records of 283 cocaine abuse re consecutively admitted to a municipal hospital, and identified eight patients (2.8%) who presented with seizures. Four (1.4%) had focal or generalized seizures temporally associated with cocaine use. Based on these four cases and five previous reports, we conclude that although seizures are relatively rare in hospitalized cocaine users, they are provoked by all major routes of administration, and may be partial or generalized.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Lipton, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461.

Received June 29, 1988. Accepted for publication in final form September 19, 1988.

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