Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm Unprovoked - Epilepsy: • Focal: Simple, Complex • Generalized: Absence, Myoclonic, Tonic, Clonic, Atonic, Tonic-clonic Provoked: • Vascular: Stroke, Hypertension, ICH, Cerebral venous thrombosis, Congenital vascular malformation, Aneurysm, Vasculitis, Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome, Moyamoya • Toxic: Alcohol, Medication, Recreational drugs, Poisons • Structural: Tumor, Traumatic brain injury • Infectious: Meningitis, Encephalitis, Brain Abscess, Toxoplasmosis, Neurocysticercosis, PML • Metabolic: Hypoglycemia, Hyperglycemia, Hyponatremia, Hypomagnesemia, Hypocalcemia, Cerebral Hypoxia, Uremia, Liver failure, Eclampsia, Prophyria #Seizures #Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes #neurology
