Rasmussen encephalitis tissue transfer program

Rasmussen encephalitis (RE) was first described in 1958 by Theodore Rasmussen and colleagues at the Montreal Neurological Institute. RE is a very rare neuro-inflammatory disease characterized by intractable seizures and progressive unilateral neurologic deficits. For most diagnosed cases, resection or disconnection of the affected cerebral hemisphere is the only effective treatment. The extreme rarity of the disease has hampered efforts to...