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Medical Clinics of North AmericaAutoimmune encephalitides (AE) constitute a broad group of inflammatory brain disorders characterized by prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms, frequently in association with autoantibodies against neural (neuronal or glial) antigens. The most frequent AE are anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (associated with MOG ...
Mar, Guasp, Josep, Dalmau
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Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2016 Antibodies to brain cell-surface proteins have recently been identified in patients whose symptoms cross the boundary between neurology and psychiatry and are associated with syndromes that are responsive to treatment with immunosuppression-based treatments. This has led to an expansion in the field of autoimmune encephalitis.
Beuy Joob, Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Sleep disturbances in autoimmune encephalitis [PDF]
Encephalitis, 2023 Autoimmune encephalitis is an inflammatory neurological disorder characterized by psychiatric symptoms, cognitive impairment, and focal neurological deficits or seizures.
Dae Lim Koo
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Autoimmune Encephalitis—A Multifaceted Pathology
Biomedicines, 2023 Autoimmune encephalitis is a complex and multifaceted pathology that involves immune-mediated inflammation of the brain. It is characterized by the body’s immune system attacking the brain tissue, leading to a cascade of inflammatory processes.
Monica Neațu +4 more
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Diagnostics, 2023 Encephalitis is a condition with a variety of etiologies, clinical presentations, and degrees of severity. The causes of these disorders include both neuroinfections and autoimmune diseases in which host antibodies are pathologically directed against ...
Michał Braczkowski +5 more
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Biomedicines, 2022 The neurologic complications of COVID-19 infection are frequent in hospitalized patients; a high percentage of them present neurologic manifestations at some point during the course of their disease.
Adina Stoian +8 more
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Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2019 Abstract Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is an increasingly recognized, potentially life-threatening disorder that poses a diagnostic challenge in the intensive care setting because of its variable clinical presentation. Various epidemiologic studies show that AE has incidence and prevalence rates similar to those of infectious encephalitis.
Eslam Shosha, Sean J. Pittock
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Paraneoplastic encephalitis associated with renal cell carcinoma [PDF]
Encephalitis, 2021 Purpose Paraneoplastic encephalitis is autoimmune encephalitis accompanied by tumors. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a kidney cancer originating from various types of renal cells and rarely has been associated with paraneoplastic neurologic manifestation.
Yoonhyuk Jang +4 more
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Autoimmune encephalitis-associated epilepsy. [PDF]
Nat Rev NeurolSteriade C, Bauer J, Bien CG.
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Autoimmune encephalitis is a rare but critical complication of COVID-19. The management of COVID-19-associated autoimmune encephalitis includes the use of steroids, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), plasmapheresis, and monoclonal antibody therapy.
Chi-Hung Liu +3 more
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