文档介绍：One of the oldest Known conditions
Epilepsy
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Facts about epilepsy
1 in 20 people will have a seizure in their life time
At least 1 in 131 people have epilepsy in the UK with 75 new cases diagnosed daily
50 million world wide have epilepsy making it the mon serious neurological condition globally
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Facts about epilepsy
80 per cent of the worlds population of people with epilepsy are in developing countries
90 per cent of people with epilepsy in developing countries are not receiving appropriate treatment
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Facts about epilepsy
Epilepsy is a physical condition
It can affect anyone at any age without warning or apparent cause
There are many different causes, about 30 different epileptic syndromes and
over 38 different seizure types
It can go into remission as suddenly as it started or last a life time
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Facts about epilepsy
Someone can have more than one type of seizure
The seizure type(s) someone has can change with time or with drug treatment
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What is epilepsy?
Epilepsy can be defined as:
A neurological condition causing the tendency for repeated seizures of primary cerebral origin
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Physical Causes
Head injury from accidents, brain trauma, stroke, brain parasites, infections or diseases (such as cerebral malaria), scars on the brain and brain tumours.
In young children: head trauma and/or lack of oxygen during birth. Prolonged febrile convulsions. Brain malformations and/or ‘birthmarks’ on the brain cause seizures to start early in life or later on
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ic causes
Increasingly recognised that there are ic causes for epilepsy
Idiopathic epilepsy is thought to have a ic causes
Low seizure threshold can be inherited in a small number of cases
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International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) seizure classification
Divided into focal and generalised seizures
Important to get seizure type right as different treatments are appropriate for different seizure types
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