An immunologic case study of acute encephalitis with refractory, repetitive partial seizures

Brain and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 763-767

  Wakamoto, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^c   Ebihara, Tomohiro ^a   Okamoto, Kentaro ^a   Hayashi, Masatoshi ^a   Ichiyama, Takashi ^d   Ishii, Eiichi ^e  

^a EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Ehime Rehabilitation Center for Children   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute encephalitis with refractory; Autoimmunity; Glutamate receptor antibody; Hypercytokinemia; Natural killer cell

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CD2 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CLINDAMYCIN; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; PHENYTOIN; THIOPENTAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS WITH REFRACTORY REPETITIVE PARTIAL SEIZURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHILD; COUGHING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PUPIL REFLEX; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TENDON REFLEX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; CHILD; CYTOKINES; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

EID: 84865596230     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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