Treatment-responsive subacute limbic encephalitis and NMDA receptor antibodies in a man

Neurology. 2008 Feb 26;70(9):728-9. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000305981.53537.d9.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anticonvulsants / administration & dosage
  • Autoantibodies / blood*
  • Autoimmune Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Autoimmune Diseases / immunology
  • Carbamazepine / administration & dosage
  • Cell Line
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / diagnosis
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / drug therapy
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / immunology
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Immunization, Passive
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / administration & dosage
  • Limbic Encephalitis / diagnosis*
  • Limbic Encephalitis / drug therapy*
  • Limbic Encephalitis / immunology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Methylprednisolone / administration & dosage
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurologic Examination / drug effects
  • Neurons / immunology
  • Neurons / pathology
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Rats
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / immunology*
  • Temporal Lobe / pathology

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Autoantibodies
  • Immunosuppressive Agents
  • NR1 NMDA receptor
  • NR2B NMDA receptor
  • Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
  • Carbamazepine
  • Methylprednisolone