Rasmussen’s encephalopathy (RE): clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on rasmussen’s encephalopathy (re): clinical features: Pathology This is a T-cell dominant inflammation It may be triggered by a viral antigen Anti GluR3 antibodies are positive: these are possibly secondary to brain damage Clinical stages Demographic features…

Pathology

  • This is a T-cell dominant inflammation
  • It may be triggered by a viral antigen
  • Anti GluR3 antibodies are positive: these are possibly secondary to brain damage

Clinical stages

Demographic features

Risk factors

Clinical features

Associated ipsilateral features

Late-onset Rasmussen’s encephalopathy

Differentials: other hemispheric epileptic syndromes

References

  1. Bien CG, Granata T, Antozzi C, et al. Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of Rasmussen encephalitis. Brain 2005; 128:454-471.
  2. Varadkar S, Bien CG, Kruse CA, et al. Rasmussen's encephalitis: clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment advances. Lancet Neurol 2014; 13:195-205.
  3. Granata T, Cross H, Theodore W, Avanzini G. Immune-mediated epilepsies. Epilepsia 2011; 52(suppl 3):5-11.
  4. Fauser S, Elger CE, Woermann F, Bien CG. Rasmussen encephalitis: Predisposing factors and their potential role in unilaterality. Epilepsia 2021 (Online ahead of print).
  5. Avberšek A, Miserocchi A, McEvoy AW, et al. Multiphasic presentation of Rasmussen's encephalitis. Epileptic Disord 2015; 17:315-320.
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