Cerebral infarction may cause epilepsy.
Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease with clinical manifestations of recurrent seizures, mainly caused by excessive discharge of neurons in the brain, and cerebrovascular disease is one of the common causes of epilepsy.
Cerebral infarction is a common cerebrovascular disease, which refers to ischemic necrosis or softening of limited brain tissue caused by ischemia and hypoxia due to impaired blood circulation in the brain. This ischemia, hypoxia, and hemorrhage caused by cerebral infarction through abnormal blood shunting can easily induce epilepsy.
In addition, epilepsy due to cerebral infarction is related to the location of the damage. When cerebral infarction occurs in locations such as the frontotemporal lobe or extensive cortical damage, it is prone to cause abnormal discharges of neurons in the brain, resulting in secondary epileptic seizures, with symptoms such as limb spasms, loss of consciousness, or short-term disorientation seizures.
Epilepsy caused by cerebral infarction requires concomitant treatment for cerebrovascular disease following seizures.