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Rasmussen's Encephalitis

What are the causes?

It is thought that in most patients RE is an autoimmune disorder. Many patients have antibodies in their blood that bind to nerve cells and are capable of damaging the brain. In most patients, it is not clear what triggers the abnormal immune response, although sometimes RE has followed an otherwise minor bacterial or viral infection, or head injury.

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Medical text written April 2002 by Dr Ian Hart, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Neurologist, University Department of Neurological Science, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK.

 

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