Misdiagnosis of Underlying Causes of Convulsions
| About underlying conditions: With a diagnosis of Convulsions, it is important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing Convulsions. These are other medical conditions that may possibly cause Convulsions. For general information on this form of misdiagnosis, see Underlying Condition Misdiagnosis or Overview of Misdiagnosis |
Underlying conditions list: The list of possible underlying conditions mentioned in various sources for Convulsions includes:
- Fever - such as for febrile convulsions
- Febrile convulsions
- Epilepsy - most common cause of seizures in adults.
- Breath holding - in infants
- Breathing difficulty
- Whooping cough
- Brain inflammation
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
- Head injury
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
- Hypoglycemia
- Certain types of poisoning
- Certain drug overdoses (type of Adverse reaction)
- Alcohol withdrawal
Convulsions as a complication: Other conditions that might have Convulsions as a complication might be potential underlying conditions. The list of conditions listing Convulsions as a complication includes:
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Amphetamines
- Binswanger's Disease
- Celiac Disease
- Cocaine
- Down Syndrome
- Ehrlichiosis
- End-stage renal disease
- Fungal meningitis
- Japanese encephalitis
- Kidney failure
- Lupus
- Marijuana
- Porphyria
- Preeclampsia
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Rett's syndrome
- Roseola infantum
- Sandhoff Disease
- Uremia
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
- Whooping Cough
- Yellow fever
Convulsions as a symptom: Conditions listing Convulsions as a symptom may also be potential underlying conditions:
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
- Acute kidney failure
- African Sleeping sickness
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Alexander Syndrome
- Alpers Syndrome
- Alternating Hemiplegia
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Amphetamines
- Anoxia
- Arachnoid Cysts
- Arteriovenous Malformation
- Asphyxia
- Barbiturate abuse
- Batten Disease
- Benzodiazepine abuse
- Binswanger's Disease
- Brain cancer
- Bulimia nervosa
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Celiac Disease
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chagas disease
- Chemical pneumonia
- Classic childhood ALD
- Cocaine
- Concussion
- Congenital Toxoplasmosis
- Convulsions
- Craniosynostosis
- Cysticercosis
- Dandy-Walker Syndrome
- Diabetic hypoglycemia
- DiGeorge's syndrome
- East African Trypanosomiasis
- Eclampsia
- Ecstasy
- Encephalitis
- Encephaloceles
- End-stage renal disease
- Epilepsy
- Fahr's Syndrome
- Febrile Seizures
- Gaucher Disease
- Granulomatous amebic encephalitis
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Heatstroke
- High altitude cerebral edema
- HIV/AIDS
- Holoprosencephaly
- Hydranencephaly
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemic attack
- Incontinentia Pigmenti
- Joubert Syndrome
- Kidney failure
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
- Lead poisoning
- Leukemia
- Listeriosis
- Lupus
- Megalencephaly
- Melioidosis
- Meningioma
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal disease
- Menkes Disease
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
- Microcephaly
- Mitochondrial diseases
- Moyamoya Disease
- Naegleria
- Neonatal ALD
- Neurocysticercosis
- Neuronal Migration Disorders
- Nocardiosis
- Ohtahara Syndrome
- Oligodendroglioma
- Parry Romberg Syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
- Pneumonia
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Porencephaly
- Porphyria
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
- Pulmonary embolism
- Rabies
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Type 2
- Rett's syndrome
- Reye's Syndrome
- Rift Valley Fever
- Sandhoff Disease
- Schilder's Disease
- Schistosomiasis
- Schizencephaly
- Septo-Optic Dysplasia
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Stroke
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Syphilis
- Tetanus
- Todd's Paralysis
- Toxocariasis
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Viral meningitis
- West African Trypanosomiasis
- Whooping Cough
- Yellow fever
- Zellweger Syndrome
Last revision: April 9, 2003
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