Template:Pediatric seizure DDX
Pediatric seizure
- Epileptic seizure
- First-time seizure
- Seizure with known seizure disorder
- Status epilepticus
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- Non-compliance with or "outgrowing" AEDs
- Non-epileptic seizure
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
- CNS abscess
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Benzodiazepine withdrawal
- Metabolic abnormalities: hyponatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia
- Pyridoxine responsive seizure[1]
- Eclampsia
- Neurocysticercosis
- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
- Impact seizure (head trauma)
- Seizure with VP shunt
- Toxic ingestion
- Psychogenic nonepileptic seizure (pseudoseizure)
- Hydrocephalus
- Intracranial mass
- Syncope
- Breath-holding spell
- Hyperventilation syndrome
- Migraine headache
- Movement disorders
- Narcolepsy/cataplexy
- Post-hypoxic myoclonus (Status myoclonicus)
- Infatile Spasms/West Syndrome
- ↑ Baxter P. et al. Pyridoxine‐dependent and pyridoxine‐responsive seizures. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2001, 43: 416–42