Epilepsy
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Epilepsy Complications
Complications of epilepsy include:
Aspiration pneumonia
Depression
Injuries that occur:
Hip fracture
Shoulder fracture
Ankle fracture
Tongue laceration
Dental injury
Shoulder dislocation
Learning disabilities
Mallory-Weiss tear
Medication side effects
Status epilepticus:
Seizure
that lasts longer than 30 minutes
Multiple episodes of
seizure
without complete recovery between episodes
Rhabdomyolysis
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Epilepsy Underlying Cause
Related Conditions
Febrile seizure
Petit-mal seizures
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Tonic clonic seizure
Dizziness
Faintness
Loss of consciousness
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Last Updated: Aug 26, 2008
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Epilepsy References:
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Camfield P, Camfield C. Epileptic syndromes in childhood: clinical features, outcomes, and treatment. Epilepsia. 2002;43 Suppl 3:27-32.
Kinsman SL, Vining EP, Quaskey SA, Mellits D, Freeman JM. Efficacy of the ketogenic diet for intractable seizure disorders: review of 58 cases. Epilepsia. 1992 Nov-Dec;33(6):1132-6.
Pearl PL, Bennett HD, Khademian Z. Seizures and metabolic disease. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2005 Mar;5(2):127-33.
Posner EB, Mohamed K, Marson AG. A systematic review of treatment of typical absence seizures in children and adolescents with ethosuximide, sodium valproate or lamotrigine. Seizure. 2005 Mar;14(2):117-22.
