Reactive seizures in 40 dogs: A clinical study

Abstract

Seizures are the most common neurological disorders in dogs. Based on the etiology the epileptic dogs were classified as idiopathic epilepsy, reactive seizures and structural epilepsy. In this study 40/179 dogs were diagnosed with reactive seizures. They were grouped in to different age and sex. The different etiologies of reactive seizures in this study were hepatic encephalopathy, cardiomyopathy, uremic encephalopathy, infectious, hypothyroidism, hypocalcemia, verminous, hypoglycaemia, tetanus and anemia. This categorisation will guide the clinician to treat for the primary cause and plan the antiepileptic treatment accordingly.