2 Physicians might not directly observe the initial seizure, or even know whether a seizure has occurred, and so they define seizure-like to include any initial visit with an International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code for epilepsy, seizures (including febrile), and convulsions (appendix ...
Currently, the most commonly used definitions of epilepsy and epileptic seizure are those proposed by ILAE in 2005 [10] where an epileptic seizure is 'a transient occurrence of signs and symptoms due to abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain' and a conceptual definition ...