What is the evidence to support the use of plasma exchange as first-line therapy for N-methyl d-aspartate receptor antibody encephalitis?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ² Department of Pathology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
• ³ Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
• ⁵ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, VA Connecticut, West Haven, Connecticut.
• ⁶ Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.