Relative proportion (%) | |
Acute symptomatic seizures (provoked seizures) | |
Acute hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke | 50% |
Metabolic encephalopathy | 6 to 30% |
Drugs and alcohol | 10% |
Others (eg, recent head trauma, active intracranial infections) | 5 to 20% |
Epilepsy (unprovoked seizures) | |
Cerebrovascular disease (eg, prior stroke, vascular malformation) | 30 to 50% |
Dementia | 9 to 17% |
Others (eg, brain tumors, remote head trauma, prior intracranial infection) | 5 to 15% |
Unknown | 30 to 50% |
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