Steroid-responsive limbic encephalitis

Y Watanabe, Y Shimizu, S Ooi, K Tanaka… - Internal …, 2003 - jstage.jst.go.jp
A71-year-old manpresented with gradually progress-ing cognitive decline following acute
febrile exanthe-matous disorder. The MRIshowed an abnormality in the bilateral limbic …

Autoimmune limbic encephalitis causing fits, rapidly progressive confusion and hyponatraemia

EJ Dunstan, JB Winer - Age and ageing, 2006 - academic.oup.com
A 78-year-old woman presented with a short history of confusion and seizures and was
found to be hyponatraemic. Routine investigations failed to find a cause. Magnetic …

Steroid responsive chronic brainstem encephalitis featuring mental symptoms, abnormal eye movement and cerebellar ataxia

R Watanabe, H Tachikawa, R Hayashi… - No to Shinkei= Brain …, 1997 - europepmc.org
A 53-year-old man presented with progressive ataxia two and a half years prior to
admission. Initially he was treated in a local hospital for 4 months with a diagnosis of …

Successful immune treatment for non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

M Mori, S Kuwabara, M Yoshiyama, T Kanesaka… - Journal of the …, 2002 - Elsevier
A 21-year-old woman subacutely developed memory loss subsequent to gastroenteritis.
Brain MRI with gadolinium enhancement showed symmetric involvement of the amygdala …

Autoimmune and limbic encephalitis: case series with some atypical variables in clinical practice

P Štourač, J Bednářová, P Zicháček, Z Čermáková… - Neurological …, 2022 - Springer
Autoimmune and limbic encephalitides are still rare diseases characterized by rapid
diagnostics and treatment development in recent years. The incidence of anti-N-methyl-D …

Autoimmune encephalitis: a potentially reversible cause of status epilepticus, epilepsy, and cognitive decline

AK Pandit, K Ihtisham, A Garg, S Gulati… - Annals of Indian …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To review clinical characteristics and response to immunomodulation therapy in
autoimmune encephalitis presenting with status epilepticus (SE), epilepsy, and cognitive …

Autoimmune limbic encephalitis

CA Vedeler, A Storstein - Acta neurologica Scandinavica, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Autoimmune limbic encephalitis (LE) can arise both by paraneoplastic and non‐
paraneoplastic mechanisms. Patients with LE usually have a subacute onset of memory …

Optic neuritis as the initial clinical presentation of limbic encephalitis: a case report

SSL Cheung, GKK Lau, KH Chan, IYH Wong… - Journal of Medical Case …, 2018 - Springer
Background Limbic encephalitis is characterized by rapid onset of working memory deficit,
mood changes, and often seizures. The condition has a strong paraneoplastic association …

Steroid-responsive recurrent limbic encephalitis associated with small cell lung cancer and neuropil antibodies.

E Tüzün, E Yaka, L Zuliani, S Içöz, B Baklan… - Acta neurologica …, 2011 - europepmc.org
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis (PLE) associated with small cell lung cancer (SCLC)
often presents with antibodies to intracellular antigens and a poor outcome even after tumor …

Seronegative limbic encephalitis manifesting as subacute amnestic syndrome: a case report and review of the literature

II Ismail, F Alnaser, JY Al-Hashel - Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021 - Springer
Background Limbic encephalitis (LE), a variant of autoimmune encephalitis, is inflammation
of the limbic system of the brain. The disorder presents with subacute impairment of short …