Elevated VGKC-complex antibodies in a boy with fever-induced refractory epileptic encephalopathy in school-age children (FIRES)

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1053-1057

  Illingworth, Marjorie A ^a   Hanrahan, Donncha ^b   Anderson, Claire E ^b   O'Kane, Kathryn ^b   Anderson, Jennifer ^b   Casey, Maureen ^b   de Sousa, Carlos ^a   Cross, J Helen ^a,c   Wright, Sukvhir ^d   Dale, Russell C ^e   Vincent, Angela ^d   Kurian, Manju A ^a,c  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BELFAST HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEVER INDUCED REFRACTORY EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANTIBODIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 80054942331     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04008.x     Document Type: Article

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