Epidemiology of Seizures and Epilepsy After Traumatic Brain Injury
Seizures occurring early after TBI are usually distinguished from epilepsy (recurrent unprovoked seizures) because they differ in mortality and prognosis.[4] The following definitions have been proposed: (1) immediate seizures, which occur less than 24 hours after injury; (2) early seizures, which occur less than 1 week after injury; and (3) late seizures, which occur more than a week after injury and constitute the diagnosis of posttraumatic epilepsy.[5–7]
Semin Neurol. 2015;35(3):218-222. © 2015 Thieme Medical Publishers
