Excellent outcome after prolonged status epilepticus due to non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Acta Neurologica Belgica

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-23

  Kondziella, Daniel ^a   Andersen, Oluf ^a   Asztely, Fredrik ^a   Holmberg, Björn ^a   Hedström, Anders ^a   Szentgyörgyi, Eva ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Intravenous immunoglobulins; Limbic encephalitis; Outcome; Plasma exchange; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CARBAMAZEPINE; COMPLEMENT; ETIRACETAM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; TAU PROTEIN; THIOPENTAL; TOPIRAMATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VALPROIC ACID; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTUBATION; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MONOCYTOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SOMNOLENCE; SUBICULUM; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 44649146407     PISSN: 03009009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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