ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Epilepsy or seizures
8A60 — Epilepsy due to structural or metabolic conditions or...
8A60.3 — Epilepsy due to dementias

ICD-11 8A60.3 — Epilepsy due to dementias

Epilepsy with onset in a patient with established diagnosis of dementia. Seizures may occur at any time after the disease onset. Focal onset seizures are the prevailing type in Alzheimer’s disease while seizures with bilateral convulsive activity predominate in other dementing disorders. Myoclonus is another common finding in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.