[Epilepsies due to cerebrovascular disorders].
We stress the importance of differential diagnosis between late onset epilepsies and incidental fits in higher age. This is not merely a nomenclatory play but of great therapeutical consequence. Epileptic and non-epileptic attacks with onsets in higher age, either of generalized or of lateralized phenomenology, form an important precursor of impending stroke. "Vaskuläre Präkursivepilepsie", so called by us, within this group of premonitory signs is of special importance and may open way to adequat prophylactic therapy, medically or surgically (mainly in the sence of carotid surgery). Late onset epilepsy in itself can be treated with relative low dosis of antepileptics plus cardiotonic and vasoactive medication. Hence, the status epilepticus as accompanying symptom of a stroke is difficult to treat and very often forms a signum mali omniis leading to death by exhaustion of the predamaged brain.
D000367:Age Factors; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis
Zerebrovaskulär-bedingte Epilepsien.