A case of acute encephalitis with refractory, repetitive partial seizures, presenting autoantibody to glutamate receptor Gluε2

Brain and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 531-534

  Ito, Hiromichi ^a   Mori, Kenji ^a   Toda, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugimoto, Mayumi ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^b   Kuroda, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

A peculiar type of post encephalitic encephalopathic epilepsy; Acute encephalitis with refractory, repetitive partial seizures (AERRPS); Autoantibody to glutamate receptor Glu 2; Massive globulin therapy; Mild hypothermia therapy

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID; THIAMYLAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEIZURES;

EID: 25644446711     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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