Successful treatment of anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor limbic encephalitis in a 22-month-old child with plasmapheresis and pharmacological immunomodulation

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 312-

  Agrawal, Shakti ^a   Vincent, Angela ^b   Jacobson, Leslie ^b   Milford, David ^a   Gupta, Rajat ^a   Wassmer, Evangeline ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PLASMAPHERESIS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 77950315215     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.164889     Document Type: Letter

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