A rare neurological disease is Sturge-Weber syndrome in which the individual has had seizures since birth, the syndrome also involves congenital glaucoma and the child has reddish spots on the face at birth, due to poor local vascularity, these spots usually affect only one side of the body and rarely the neck and trunk can also present them.
The disease affects the central nervous system and epilepsy, mental retardation, hemiplegia and/or hydrocephalus may occur as the case may be.
Electroencephalogram, MRI and brain angiography need to be evaluated for diagnosis of the disease.
Treatment is based on medications that control seizures and help minimize symptoms of the disease. Recently, doctors were able to “close” a small area of a girl’s brain for about a year and a half and she stopped having seizures. effective new form of treatment for some patients.