Symptom
Seizure
A sudden, uncontrolled surge of electrical activity in the brain causing transient neurological dysfunction, manifesting as alterations in consciousness, behavior, motor activity, sensation, or autonomic function, with or without convulsions, and resolving spontaneously.
Causes
Neurological causes
Epilepsy
Traumatic brain injury
Meningitis
Encephalitis
Stroke
Brain hemorrhage
Brain tumor
Metabolic and electrolyte causes
Hypoglycemia
Hyponatremia
Hypernatremia
Substance-related causes
Alcohol misuse
Alcohol withdrawal
Cocaine use
Febrile seizures (in young children)
Other causes
Photosensitivity
Sleep deprivation
Medication-induced seizures
Also known as: Convulsion, Convulsion, Epileptic fit, Epileptic seizure
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
Note: Lists existing diagnoses in Diagnotize only.