Anthony D Jimenez, Margaret Gopaul, Hannah Asbell, Seyhmus Aydemir, Maysaa M Basha, Ayush Batra, Charlotte Damien, Gregory S Day, Onome Eka, Krista Eschbach, Safoora Fatima, Madeline C Fields, Brandon Foreman, Elizabeth E Gerard, Teneille E Gofton, Hiba A Haider, Stephen T Hantus, Sara Hocker, Amy Jongeling, Mariel Kalkach Aparicio, Padmaja Kandula, Peter Kang, Karnig Kazazian, Marissa A Kellogg, Minjee Kim, Jong Woo Lee, Lara V Marcuse, Christopher M McGraw, Wazim Mohamed, Janet Orozco, Cederic Pimentel, Vineet Punia, Alexandra M Ramirez, Claude Steriade, Aaron F Struck, Olga Taraschenko, Andrew K Treister, Ji Yeoun Yoo, Sahar Zafar, Daniel J Zhou, Deepti Zutshi, Nicolas Gaspard, Lawrence J Hirsch, Aurelie Hanin
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a subset of new onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) that involves a febrile infection prior to the onset of the refractory status epilepticus. It is unclear whether FIRES and non-FIRES NORSE are distinct conditions. Here, we compare 34 patients with FIRES to 30 patients with non-FIRES NORSE for demographics, clinical features, neuroimaging, and outcomes. Because patients with FIRES were younger than patients with non-FIRES NORSE (median = 28 vs...
April 16, 2024: Epilepsia