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What is Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome - FIRES
What is Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome - FIRES? Plain-language, medically reviewed definition plus the lived reality told by patients.
It's a clinical presentation, not a specific diagnosis, in which healthy people are suddenly struck by prolonged seizures after an unspecific fever. The seizures that do not respond to at least two anti-seizure drugs and do not have a clear structural, toxic or metabolic cause.
Posted Jun 20, 2022 by Carla 4020
