Rasmussen's encephalitis: clinical features, pathobiology, and treatment advances

S Varadkar, CG Bien, CA Kruse, FE Jensen… - The Lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Rasmussen's encephalitis is a rare chronic neurological disorder, characterised by
unilateral inflammation of the cerebral cortex, drug-resistant epilepsy, and progressive …

Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of Rasmussen encephalitis: a European consensus statement

CG Bien, T Granata, C Antozzi, JH Cross, O Dulac… - Brain, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) is a rare but severe immune-mediated brain disorder leading
to unilateral hemispheric atrophy, associated progressive neurological dysfunction and …

Brain 18F-FDG PET for the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis: a systematic review and a meta-analysis

M Bordonne, MB Chawki, M Doyen, A Kas… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Objective To consolidate current understanding of detection sensitivity of brain 18 F-FDG
PET scans in the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis and to define specific metabolic …

Diagnostic imaging in 13 cases of Rasmussen's encephalitis: can early MRI suggest the diagnosis?

L Chiapparini, T Granata, L Farina, E Ciceri, A Erbetta… - Neuroradiology, 2003 - Springer
Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a rare, progressive, chronic encephalitis characterised by
drug-resistant epilepsy, progressive hemiparesis and mental impairment. It typically involves …

Autoimmune-associated seizures

L Gillinder, J Britton - CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article focuses on the seizure manifestations and presentations
of autoimmune-associated epilepsy and acute symptomatic seizures in autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of epileptogenesis in pediatric epileptic syndromes: Rasmussen encephalitis, infantile spasms, and febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome …

CA Pardo, R Nabbout, AS Galanopoulou - Neurotherapeutics, 2014 - Elsevier
The mechanisms of epileptogenesis in pediatric epileptic syndromes are diverse, and may
involve disturbances of neurodevelopmental trajectories, synaptic homeostasis, and cortical …

Neuroimaging in pediatric epilepsy: a multimodality approach

S Rastogi, C Lee, N Salamon - Radiographics, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Pediatric patients with intractable epilepsy represent a challenging clinical population.
However, recent advances in neuroimaging with a multimodality imaging approach that …

[HTML][HTML] The correspondence between morphometric MRI and metabolic profile in Rasmussen's encephalitis

C Tang, P Ren, K Ma, S Li, X Wang, Y Guan, J Zhou… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

The role of radionuclide imaging in epilepsy, part 2: epilepsy syndromes

A Kumar, HT Chugani - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET and SPECT can play an important role in the evaluation of various epileptic syndromes,
particularly those with unknown causes, by revealing various underlying abnormalities that …

Rasmussen syndrome: multifocal spread of inflammation suggested from MRI and PET findings

Y Maeda, H Oguni, Y Saitou, A Mutoh, K Imai… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Background: A 6‐year‐old girl with Rasmussen syndrome (RS) showed multiple small high‐
signal‐intensity areas independently in the right hemisphere by fluid‐attenuated inversion …