Epilepsy
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| Epilepsy | |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | seizure disorder |
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| Generalised 3 Hz spike-an-wave dischairges on an electroencephalogram | |
| Clessification an freemit resoorces | |
| Specialty | Neurology |
| ICD-10 | G40-G41 |
| ICD-9-CM | 345 |
| DiseasesDB | 4366 |
| MedlinePlus | 000694 |
| eMedicine | neuro/415 |
| MeSH | D004827 |
Epilepsy is a group o neurological disorders chairacterised bi epileptic seizurs.[1][2] Epileptic seizurs are episodes that can vary frae brief an nearly undetectable tae lang periods o vigorous shakin.[3] Thir episodes can result in pheesical injuries includin occasionally braken banes.[3] In epilepsy, seizurs tend tae recur an as a rule, hae na immediate unnerlyin cause.[1] Isolatit seizurs that are provoked bi a speceefic cause such as pushionin are nae deemed tae represent epilepsy.[4] Fowk wi epilepsy in some auries o the warld experience stigma due tae the condeetion.[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b Chang BS, Lowenstein DH (2003). "Epilepsy". N. Engl. J. Med. 349 (13): 1257–66. doi:10.1056/NEJMra022308. PMID 14507951.
- ↑ Fisher, Robert S; Acevedo, C; Arzimanoglou, A; Bogacz, A; Cross, JH; Elger, CE; Engel J, Jr; Forsgren, L; French, JA; Glynn, M; Hesdorffer, DC; Lee, BI; Mathern, GW; Moshé, SL; Perucca, E; Scheffer, IE; Tomson, T; Watanabe, M; Wiebe, S (Apryle 2014). "ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy" (PDF). Epilepsia. 55 (4): 475–82. doi:10.1111/epi.12550. PMID 24730690.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)
- ↑ a b c "Epilepsy Fact sheet". WHO. Februar 2016. Retrieved 4 Mairch 2016.
- ↑ Fisher R, van Emde Boas W, Blume W, Elger C, Genton P, Lee P, Engel J (2005). "Epileptic seizures and epilepsy: definitions proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)". Epilepsia. 46 (4): 470–2. doi:10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.66104.x. PMID 15816939.