Symptom
Seizure
A sudden, uncontrolled surge of electrical activity in the brain leading to neurological dysfunction and manifesting as transient alterations of consciousness, behavior, motor activity, sensation, or autonomic function, with or without convulsions, and resolving spontaneously. Possible causes are epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, meningitis, encephalitis, stroke, brain hemorrhage, hypoglycemia, hyponatremia/hypernatremia, alcohol misuse/withdrawal, cocaine, fever (febrile seizure in young children), brain tumor, and photosensitivity.
Also known as: Convulsion, Epileptic fit, Epileptic seizure, Convulsion
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Acute liver failure
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Brain abscess
- Brain tumor
- Celiac disease
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Encephalitis
- Endometriosis
- Epidural hematoma
- Epilepsy
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Febrile seizure
- Henoch-Schönlein purpura
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypernatremia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Insulinoma
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Intussusception
- Lead toxicity
- Lung cancer
- Lyme disease
- Meningitis
- Metabolic acidosis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Photosensitivity
- Pneumonia
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Preeclampsia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Renal failure
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Sarcoidosis
- Schistosomiasis
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Whipple's disease
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