Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome Treated Successfully With Anakinra in a 21-Year-Old Woman

• Published in: WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin Vol. 118; no. 3; pp. 135 - 139
• Main Authors: Westbrook, Cecilia, Subramaniam, Thanujaa, Seagren, Ryan M, Tarula, Erick, Co, Dominic, Furstenberg-Knauff, Meghan, Wallace, Adam, Hsu, David, Payne, Eric
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2019

INTRODUCTIONFebrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a syndrome of new-onset status epilepticus preceded by fever and highly refractory to treatment, thus resulting in high mortality and severe neurologic morbidity in surviving patients. Anakinra is an IL-1 receptor antagonist that has...