Development of Isaacs' syndrome following complete recovery of voltage-gated potassium channel antibody-associated limbic encephalitis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 185-187

  Takahashi, Hirokatsu ^a   Mori, Masahiro ^a   Sekiguchi, Yukari ^a   Misawa, Sonoko ^a   Sawai, Setsu ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isaacs' syndrome; Limbic encephalitis; Morvan's syndrome; VGKC; Voltage gated potassium channel antibodies

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYALGIA; MYOKYMIA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTIBODIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; ISAACS SYNDROME; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED;

EID: 55649114861     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.07.034     Document Type: Article

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