Treatment responsive GABA(B)-receptor limbic encephalitis presenting as new-onset super-refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) in a deployed U.S. soldier

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 486-493

  Hainsworth, Jeffrey Brian ^a,b   Shishido, Akira ^a,b   Theeler, Brett James ^a,b   Carroll, Craig Grason ^a,b   Fasano, Rebecca Ellen ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

All epilepsy seizures; Encephalitis; GABA(B) receptor; New onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE); Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; AUTOANTIBODY; ETIRACETAM; HARKOSERIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; KETAMINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; RITUXIMAB; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFABULATION; CONFUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEW ONSET SUPER REFRACTORY STATUS EPILEPTICUS; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEIZURE; SOLDIER; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920640629     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2014.0702     Document Type: Note

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