Response to immunotherapy in a 20-month-old boy with anti-nmda receptor encephalitis

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1550-1551

  Wong Kisiel, L C ^a   Ji, T ^a   Renaud, D L ^a   Kotagal, S ^a   Patterson, M C ^a   Dalmau, J ^b   MacK, K J ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; HALOPERIDOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHOREOATHETOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSKINESIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; GASTROSTOMY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE TWITCH; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; THRUSH;

EID: 77952137947     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181dd41a1     Document Type: Article

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