CNS FUNGAL INFECTIONS AND BRAIN SEIZURES

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INFECTIOUS STATES AND SEIZURES

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fungal infections-FUNGAL MININGITIS-CNS-BECAUSE FUNGAL MININGITIS

OFTEN INVOLVES THE BASE OF THE BRAIN MORE PROMINENTLY THAN THE SPINAL

CORD, CISTERNAL CSF MAY YIELD ORGANISMS WHEN LUMBAR CSF IS NEGATIVE.

REPEATED EXAMINATIONS MAY BE NEEDED.

SEIZURES WITH CNS FUNGAL INFECTIONS-THE FULL RANGE OF SEIZURE

SYMPTOMATOLOGY CAN OCCUR SECONDARY TO CNS FUNGAL INFECTIONS. MANY

PATIRNTS HAVE PRESENTED WITH NEW-ONSET SEIZURES WHO DETERIORATED OR

DIED BEFORE A FUNGAL CAUSE WAS DIAGNOSED, UNDERSCORING THE IMPORTANCE

OF LIBERAL INCLUSION OF FUNGAL INFECTION

IN THE DIFFERENTAL DIAGNOSIS OF NEW-ONSET SEIZURE, ESPECIALLY WHEN

ANY PREDISPOSING CLINICAL CONTEXT EXISTS.

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SEIZURE DISORDERS ARE A SYMPTOM OF A PHYSILOGIC DISORDER. DEFINED AS

AN ABNORMAL PAROXYSMAL ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX

CAUSEING A SUDDEN ALTERAYION IN NORMAL BRAIN ACTIVITY.

EPILEPSY IS DEFINED AS REACURRING SEIZURES AND IS A SYMPTOM CAUSED BY

A DISEASE OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

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the diagnoses of epilepsy: seizure phenomenology and classifacation

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