Like if your having seizures because of your brain tumor and then you have surgery to remove it but you develop epilepsy?
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Like if your having seizures because of your brain tumor and then you have surgery to remove it but you develop epilepsy?
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Epilepsy is caused by an interruption in the electrical current in the brain. Anything can trigger it. Yes, you can have epilepsy (or also called a seizure disorder) as a result of a brain injury, tumors, and brain surgery.
It is possible that the epilepsy was actually always there, that it went unnoticed until the brain surgery was preformed. But yes, if there was a tumor growing and then removed in an area that would cause seziures, epilepsy would in fact be a result.
Occasionally brain tumours do trigger epileptic seizures. Brian Chappell (British Epilepsy Association) , Professor Pamela Crawford (Leeds Metropolitan University England) and Emeritus Professor Mervyn Eadie (University of Queensland Australia) have this to say about brain tumours and epilepsy in their book “Epilepsy at your fingers, all your questions answered about living with epilepsy” McGraw Hill Companies 2nd Edition 2002 ISBN 0074710710 p 52
“Scans can show whether or not someone has a brain tumour, but they can also show other things as well, so the fact that you are going to have a scan ( I believe that they are referring to a MRI scan here) does not automatically mean that the specialist suspects a tumour. It is important to remember that brain tumours are rarely a cause of epilepsy”.
This having been said there are many causes of epilepsy. Trauma is the most common eg damage to the head at birth, in car or workplace accidents, then hereditary or chemical imbalance in the brain.
Sites
Causes of epilepsy
http://www.epilepsyqueensland.com.au/site/causes
http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/info/index/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/epilepsy/DS00342/DSECTION=causes
http://www.neurologychannel.com/epilepsy/causes.shtml
Childhood – causes
http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/about/types/causes/childcauses.cfm
Tumours and Epilepsy
http://www.learningdiscoveries.org/Epilepsy.htm#whatcauses
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/brain_dnet.html
Epileptics can die suddenly – this is known as SUDEP
http://www.epilepsy.org.au/SUDEP.asp
http://www.accessibility.com.au/conditions/epilepsy/news;jsessionid=60AAA2208DBB031FAC6FC324C1E32E64
Epileptics and Alzhimers
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/disorders.html
I hope that these sites helps to inform you further about epilepsy. There is still a wealth of information out there. Universities like Johns Hopkins, Harvard, USCLA in the USA; Oxford and Cambridge in the UK and Monash, and UQ in Australia are doing research into epilepsy. There are loads of web sites if you want to go on searching for more information on this condition.
Cheers!!!
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