Causas | |||
Symptomatic Epilepsy | Cryptogenic Epilepsy | Idiopathic Epilepsy | |
Residual Epilepsy | Process Epilepsy | = Epilepsy with an unknown cause |
= Genetic Epilepsy |
e.g. caused by lack of oxygen during birth, or brain damage | e.g. caused by a brain tumour or a metabolic disorder | it is not possible to find the cause of about 30% of all cases of epilepsy | mainly a result of the patient's disposition to epilepsy |
Museo alemán de epilepsia en Kork www.epilepsiemuseum.de |