Nursing Rasmussen's Syndrome Summary and Study Guide
Rasmussen's Syndrome - ###Simple parietal motor seizures -Grow to worse life-threatening seizures Almost always children Produces life-threatening seizures (25 a day or more) Hemiparesis (typically unilateral) Aphasia (if left side affected) Average age- 6 years Inflammation-something causing damage to tissue in that side of the brain Autoimmune? --immune system is attacking itself, glutamate receptors that are targeted, only one half of the brain Cerebral atrophy (unilateral--one side of the brain starts shrinking) Treatment for Rasmussen's Syndrome - ###-Anti-inflammatories -Anti-epileptics (not very effective) -Target the immune system -Hemispherectomy (taking out an entire brain hemisphere
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