Clin Immunol. 2018 May 14;193:10-11. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2018.05.003.[Epub ahead of print] Letter…
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An active, 30-year-old emergency room nurse, April Braker felt sick and started behaving oddly. People thought the Schaumburg woman might be having a mental breakdown. But it was a rare autoimmune disease, and now she is unresponsive and doctors are working on her case.
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Jasmine Whiteside still struggles to articulate all of the amazing aspects of her story. That’s understandable—she only recalls pieces of it.
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Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is an autoimmune disorder in which antibodies attack NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate)-type glutamate receptors at central neuronal synapses. Symptoms include a highly characteristic set of neurologic deficits, but also prominent …
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To compare the rate of abnormal brain metabolism by FDG-PET/CT to other paraclinical findings and to describe brain metabolism patterns in autoimmune encephalitis (AE).A retrospective review of clinical data and initial dedicated brain FDG-PET/CT studies …
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Teratoma-negative anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis presenting with a single generalized tonic-clonic seizure
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Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2017 Nov;18:90-92. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2017.09.023. Epub 2017 Sep 22.Case Reports…
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Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Jul;97(27):e11202. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000011202.
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Schizophrenia is a serious mental disease with a high mortality rate and severe social consequences. Due to insufficient knowledge about its etiopathogenesis, curative treatments are not available. One of the most promising new research concepts is the …
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At age 18, Eileen Tchao was in a coma for six weeks with symptoms that appeared to be from psychosis before she was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease. Her father, Dr.
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