Question
What are the causes of pediatric epilepsy?
Answer
The common causes of pediatric epilepsy include: 1. Congenital malformations, such as chromosomal abnormalities, congenital hydrocephalus, microcephaly, incomplete corpus callosum, and incomplete cerebral cortex. 2. Prenatal and perinatal diseases, such as birth injuries being a common cause of symptomatic epilepsy in infancy. 3. Postictal sequelae after high fever convulsions, severe and prolonged high fever convulsions can lead to brain damage including neuronal loss and gliosis. 4.Brain injuries, post-traumatic epilepsy following brain injury may be accompanied by depressed fractures, dura mater tears, and regional neurological symptoms. 5. Infections, such as various bacterial meningitis, brain abscesses, granulomas, viral encephalitis, and parasitic diseases. 6. Poisoning, including lead, mercury, carbon monoxide, alcohol, strychnine, isoniazid poisoning, and systemic diseases such as preeclampsia syndrome and uremia. 7. Intracranial tumors. 8. Cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral embolism, cerebral thrombosis, and multiple lacunar attacks. 9. Nutritional and metabolic diseases, such as rickets, hypoglycemia caused by insulinoma, diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, hypoparathyroidism, and vitamin B6 deficiency.