Rasmussen encephalitis
648-651, 1994.) Plasmapheresis (skimming off the blood plasma) has been tried (to remove the GluR3) but the improvement was short-lived.
Rasmussen’s encephalitis is also known as chronic focal encephalitis or chronic progressive epilepsia paritalis continua of childhood.
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