Limbic encephalitis associated with anti - Voltage-gated potassium channel complex antibodies mimicking Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-82

  Yoo, Ji Yeoun ^a,b   Hirsch, Lawrence J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN 14 3 3; SODIUM; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSTONIA; FACE DISORDER; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL COMPLEX ANTIBODY SYNDROME; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PATHOLOGY; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892419493     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.5179     Document Type: Article

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