Care guide for Recurrent Seizures in Adults. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
Today, people with seizures still face stigma around the world and most do not receive medical treatment.2 In the United States, almost two thirds of the population do not know what to do if someone has a seizure, and some think seizures could be contagious, delaying first aid.3 However,...
In the emergent setting, the role of neuroimaging is to exclude life-threatening pathology. MRI is reserved for patients with symptoms suggestive of encephalitis in which CT has been negative. Children with one episode of febrile seizure do not require neuroimaging. Advanced imaging methods including...
Although a seizure may feel like it comes on all of a sudden, it happens in stages. Beginning phase (Prodrome) Hours or even days before a seizure starts, you may start to have symptoms. Some common signs are: Trouble sleeping Mood changes ...
After 3 weeks of treatment, there should be almost complete resolution of the lesion and the symptoms. Patients who have a positive epidemiological history or live in an endemic area and who have suggestive clinical and radiological features must be investigated for cerebral schistosomiasis. Back to...
Generalized Seizures in Epilepsy Epilepsy that causes generalized seizures is more common in children than in adults. Unlike partial seizures, which begin in a specific, often damaged area in the brain, generalized seizures cannot be traced to a specific location or focus. The abnormal electrical ac...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook absence seizure (redirected fromAbsence seizures) Thesaurus Medical n. A generalized seizure marked by transient loss of consciousness and the absence of convulsions, occurring mostly in children. Also calledpetit mal...
2-5,20-25 Most reports have focused on characteristics of the pseudoseizures for differential diagnosis from epileptic events, but some have focused on the underlying psychological factors in adults.26-34 Few data are available about the psychiatric aspects5,20,22,24 or outcome3 of pseudoseizures...
This serum theophylline concentration was greater than the concentration found in a group of patients with less severe drug-related symptoms (35 plus or minus 1.8 mug/ml, P less than 0.01). A third group of patients without drug-related symptoms had a mean theophylline serum concentration of ...
It is relatively unusual but not unknown for these seizures to develop in adults. Because in many individuals a number of factors (for example, emotional state and hormone levels) affect seizure vulnerability, a seizure may not actually occur until several of these factors are present simultaneously...