Fatal encephalitis in a patient with refractory celiac disease presenting with myorhythmia and carpal spasm

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 407-411

  Dimberg, Elliot L ^a   Crowe, Sheila E ^a   Trugman, Joel M ^a   Swerdlow, Russell H ^a   Lopes, M Beatriz ^a   Bourne, T David ^a   Burns, Ted M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpal spasm; Celiac disease; Encephalitis; Myorhythmia; Peripheral nerve hyperexcitability; Voltage gated potassium channel antibodies

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GLUTEN FREE DIET; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CARPAL JOINTS; CELIAC DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 34147159643     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21324     Document Type: Article

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