Patient's question:
Is a 7-year-old child's high fever convulsion epilepsy?Doctor's answer:
(1) Congenital malformations: such as chromosomal abnormalities, congenital hydrocephalus, microcephaly, corpus callosum agenesis, and cerebral cortex dysgenesis, etc.(2) Prenatal and perinatal diseases: Birth injuries are a common cause of symptomatic epilepsy in infancy. Contusions, edema, hemorrhage, and infarction can also lead to focal cerebral sclerosis, which may develop into lesions years later. Cerebral palsy patients often also suffer from epilepsy.
(3) Post-heatstroke sequelae: Severe and prolonged high fever seizures can cause brain damage, including neuron loss and gliosis, primarily in the medial temporal lobe, especially in the hippocampus.