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4 Reactive Seizures
Luisa De Risio Neurology/Neurosurgery Unit, Centre for Small Animal Studies, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK
Reactive seizures are the reaction of a normal brain to a systemic metabolic, nutritional or exogenous toxic disorder (Podell, 1995). Reported prevalence of reactive seizures in dogs and cats varies among studies ranging from 7 to 32% in dogs and from 4 to 28% in
