Neuropathological spectrum of Rasmussen encephalitis

Neurology India

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 156-160

  Deb, Prabal ^a   Sharma, Mehar Chand ^a   Gaikwad, Shailesh ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a   Chandra, P Sharat ^a   Jain, Satish ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Intractable epilepsy; Neuropathology; Rasmussen encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 27744433729     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.16396     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Rasmussen T, Olszewski J, Lloyd-Smith D. Focal seizures due to chronic localized encephalitis. Neurology 1958;8:435-45.
2. Topcu M, Turanli G, Aynaci FM, Yalnizoglu D, Saatci I, Yigit A, et al. Rasmussen encephalitis in childhood. Childs Nerv Syst 1999;15:395-402.
3. Bien CG, Urbach H, Deckert M, Schramm J, Wiestler OD, Lassmann H, et al. Diagnosis and staging of Rasmussen's encephalitis by serial MRI and histopathology. Neurology 2002;58:250-7.
4. Robitaille Y. Neuropathologic aspects of chronic encephalitis. In: Andermann F (ed). Chronic encephalitis and epilepsy: Rasmussen's syndrome. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann;1991. pp 79-110.
5. Gupta PC, Roy S, Tandon PN. Progressive epilepsy due to chronic persistent encephalitis. J Neurol Sci 1974; 22: 105-20.
6. Tobias SM, Robitaille Y, Hickey WF, Rhodes CH, Nordgren R, Andermann F. Bilateral Rasmussen Encephalitis: Postmortem Documentation in a Five- year-old. Epilepsia 2003;44:127-30.
7. Nakasu S, Isozumi T, Yamamoto A, Okada K, Takano T, Nakasu Y. Serial magnetic imaging findings of Rasmussen's encephalitis: case report. Neurol Med Chir Tokyo 1997; 37: 924-8.
8. th ed. London: Arnold, 2002 Greenfield, pp 909-11.
9. Bien CG, Widman G, Urbach H, Sassen R, Kuczaty S, Wiestler OD, et al. The natural history of Rasmussen's encephalitis. Brain 2002; 125:1751-9.
10. Chiapparini L, Granata T, Farina L, Ciceri E, Erbetta A, Ragona F, et al. Diagnostic imaging in 13 cases of Rasmussen's encephalitis: can early MRI suggest the diagnosis? Neuroradiology 2003; 45:171-83.
11. Pardo CA, Vining EP, Guo L, Skolasky RL, Carson BS, Freeman JM. The pathology of Rasmussen syndrome: stages of cortical involvement and Neuropathological studies in 45 hemispherectomies. Epilepsia 2004; 45: 516-26.
12. Jay V, Becker LE, Otsubo H, et al. Chronic encephalitis and epilepsy (Rasmussen's encephalitis). Detection of cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus 1 by the polymerase chain reaction and in situ hybridization. Neurology 1995; 45:108-17.
13. Andrews JM, Thompson JA, Pysher TJ, Walker ML, Hammond ME. Chronic encephalitis, epilepsy, and cerebrovascular immune complex deposits. Ann Neurol 1990; 28: 88-90.
14. Hart YM, Andermann F, Robitaille V, Laxer KD, Rasmussen T, Davis R. Double pathology in Rasmussen's syndrome: a window on the etiology? Neurology 1998; 50:731-5.
15. Rogers SW, Andrews PI, Gahring LC, Whisenand T, Cauley K, Crain B, et al. Autoantibodies to glutamate receptor GluR3 in Rasmussen's encephalitis. Science 1994 ;265:648-51.
16. Watson R, Jiang Y, Bermudez I, Houlihan L, Clover L, McKnight K et al. Absence of antibody to glutamate receptor type 3 (Glu R3) in Rasmussen encephalitis. Neurology 2004; 63: 43-50.
17. Bien CG, Bauer J, Deckwerth TL, Wiendl H, Deckert M, Westler OD, et al. Destruction of neurons by cytotoxic T cells: a new pathogenic mechanism in Rasmussen's encephalitis. Ann Neurol 2002;51:311-8.
18. Bien CG, Elger CE, Wiendl H. Advances in pathogenic concepts and therapeutic agents in Rasmussen's encephalitis. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2002; 11: 981-9.
19. Chinchilla D, Dulac O, Robain O, Plouin P, Ponsot G, Pinel JF, et al. Reappraisal of Rasmussen's syndrome with special emphasis on treatment with high doses of steroids. J Neurol.Neurosurg.Psychiatry 1994;57:1325-33.
20. Oguni H, Andermann F, Rasmussen TB. The natural history of the syndrome of chronic encephalitis and epilepsy: a study of the MNI series of forty-eight cases. In: Anderman F (ed). Chronic encephalitis and epilepsy: Rasmussen's syndrome. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1991. p. 7-35