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Aetiology

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The aetiology of drop attacks is uncertain.

Although textbooks suggest that vertebrobasilar ischaemia is the cause, the distribution of ages and sex affected are so different from that in which arterial disease is found that it is difficult to believe this is an important factor. It has no relation to epilepsy.


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