Anesthetic Management with Propofol in a Patient with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis Complicated by Intractable Partial-Onset Epileptic Seizures: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in Neurology, 2023 Introduction: Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a progressive and chronic ailment characterized by drug-resistant epileptic seizures. RE is uncommon, and no documented accounts of its anesthetic management exist.
Mai Akazawa +3 more
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Rasmussen’s encephalitis with persistent epilepsy in a young man [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is an uncommon cause of the seizure. Important key findings of RE include intractable seizure activity in children, progressive atrophy of the involved hemisphere, and small hemisphere with the large ventricle.
Van Trung Hoang +4 more
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Genetic Factors in Rasmussen’s Encephalitis Characterized by Whole-Exome Sequencing [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare chronic neurological disorder characterized by unihemispheric brain atrophy and epileptic seizures. The mechanisms of RE are complex.
Junhong Ai +12 more
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Rituximab in Rasmussen’s encephalitis: A single center experience and review of the literature [PDF]
Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2022 Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare chronic inflammatory disease of the brain resulting in unilateral hemispheric atrophy with drug-resistant focal epilepsy associated with a variable degree of progressive hemiparesis and cognitive decline.
Sujit A. Jagtap +5 more
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The correspondence between morphometric MRI and metabolic profile in Rasmussen’s encephalitis [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) atrophy is a hallmark of Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE). Here, we aim to investigate voxel-wise gray matter (GM) atrophy in RE, and its associations with glucose hypometabolism and neurotransmitter distribution ...
Chongyang Tang +9 more
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Rasmussen’s encephalitis: mechanisms update and potential therapy target [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease, 2020 Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is rare neurological diseases characterized as epilepsia partialis continua, invariably hemiparesis, and cognitive impairment.
Chongyang Tang, Guoming Luan, Tianfu Li
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Seizure control after late introduction of anakinra in a patient with adult onset Rasmussen’s encephalitis [PDF]
Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2021 Neuroinflammation has been considered an important pathophysiological process involved in epileptogenesis and may provide possibilities for new treatment possibilities.
Monika Mochol +6 more
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Psychiatric presentation in Rasmussen’s encephalitis
Industrial Psychiatry JournalRasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by drug-resistant focal epilepsy, progressive hemiplegia, and cognitive decline.
Prashant Maravi +4 more
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MRI findings in the diagnosis and monitoring of rasmussen's encephalitis Achados de RM no diagnóstico e monitorização da encefalite de Rasmussen [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2009 Rasmussen's encephalitis is a devastating syndrome of multifocal brain dysfunction and focal seizures. Magnetic resonance (MR) findings, associated with clinical data and electroencephalogram (EEG), may indicate the diagnosis and could be an indicative ...
Andréia V. Faria +5 more
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Rasmussen’s encephalitis is characterized by relatively lower production of IFN-β and activated cytotoxic T cell upon herpes viruses infection [PDF]
Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2022 Background The etiology of Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE), a rare chronic neurological disorder characterized by CD8+ T cell infiltration and unihemispheric brain atrophy, is still unknown.
Yi-Song Wang +13 more
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