Anti-glutamate ε2 receptor antibody-positive and anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibody-negative lobar encephalitis presenting as global aphasia and swallowing apraxia

Case Reports in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 291-296

  Hayata, Yuki ^a   Hamada, Kensuke ^a   Sakurai, Yasuhisa ^a   Sugimoto, Izumi ^a   Mannen, Toru ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^b  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Anti glutamate receptor antibodies; Aphasia; Lobar encephalitis; N methyl D aspartate receptor encephalitis; Swallowing apraxia

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; DIMER; HALOPERIDOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B ANTIBODY; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APHASIA; APRAXIA; APRAXIA OF SPEECH; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EXOPHTHALMOS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAMMAR; HEMISPHERE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LOBAR ENCEPHALITIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OFFICE WORKER; PHARYNX; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SEDATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDER; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; SWALLOWING; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING;

EID: 84922271626     PISSN: 1662680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000371442     Document Type: Article

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