A rare neurological disease is Sturge-Weber syndrome in which the individual has seizures since birth. The syndrome also involves congenital glaucoma and the child has some red spots on the face at birth due to poor local vascularity. These spots usually affect only one side of the body and rarely can the neck and trunks also present them.
The disease affects the central nervous system and may occur epilepsy, mental retardation, hemiplegia and / or hydrocephalus depending on each case.
For the diagnosis of the disease it is necessary to evaluate the electroencephalogram, magnetic resonance and cerebral angiography.
The treatment is based on medications that control the seizures and help to minimize the symptoms of the disease. Doctors have recently been able to "turn off" a small area of a girl's brain for about a year and a half and she has stopped convulsing. Apparently this is a new form of effective treatment for certain patients.
