Table 3.
Conditions that can provoke seizures.
Change in intracranial pathology | Infections in the immunocompromised | Chemotherapy/other treatments | Antibiotics | Medication side effects | Antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment failure |
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Progression of disease/recurrence of disease | Meningitis | Busulfan | Imipenem Cefepime | Metabolic/electrolyte derangements, particularly in sodium, magnesium, and calcium | Drug-drug interactions with antiepileptics |
Intracranial process affecting the hypothalamic-pituitary axis or systemic tumor excretion of antidiuretic hormone | Encephalitis, particularly with HSV | Cyclosporine Ifosfamide | Penicillin Cephalosporins | Hepatic and/ or renal impairment accelerating toxic-metabolic disorders or decreasing drug clearance | Competition for protein binding changes serum antiepileptic drug levels |
Surgical resection(s) | Intracranial abscess formation | Intrathecal cytarabine | Critical drug-drug interactions with AEDs | ||
PRES | CAR T-cell therapy | Neurotoxicity | |||
Radiation therapy induced edema or pseudoprogression | Combination of intrathecal liposomal cytarabine and high dose methotrexate | Elevation in blood pressure | |||
Intracranial hemorrhage | L-asparaginase | ||||
Stroke, venous congestion stroke | Intrathecal methotrexate |