Treatment of anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody-associated limbic encephalitis with mycophenolate mofetil

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 257, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1035-1038

  Saidha, Shiv ^a   Murphy, S ^a   Ronayne, A ^a   McCarthy, P ^a   Hennessy, M J ^a   Counihan, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; HARKOSERIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUTROPENIA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954427469     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-010-5476-9     Document Type: Letter

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