SEIZURES IN CATS

This article, based on a descriptive study of cats with seizures, pres ents a diagnostic and therapeutic approach to seizures in this species . Seizures in cats are caused by active structural disease or secondar y epilepsy. The most common structural causes are inflammatory disease s, many of which are probably viral (non-FIP [feline infectious perito nitis]) in origin. Toxoplasmosis, FIP, feline leukemia virus (FeLV) an d feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are rare causes of recurrent sei zures in cats. The age at onset of seizures and the pattern (type and frequency) of seizures are important factors in establishing a diagnos is. The severity of the seizures is not a good predictor of outcome.