Autoimmune epilepsy: clinical characteristics and response to immunotherapy

AML Quek, JW Britton, A McKeon, E So… - Archives of …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To describe clinical characteristics and immunotherapy responses in patients with
autoimmune epilepsy. Design Observational, retrospective case series. Setting Mayo Clinic …

Utility of an immunotherapy trial in evaluating patients with presumed autoimmune epilepsy

M Toledano, JW Britton, A McKeon, C Shin… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To evaluate a trial of immunotherapy as an aid to diagnosis in suspected
autoimmune epilepsy. Method: We reviewed the charts of 110 patients seen at our …

Antiepileptic drug therapy in patients with autoimmune epilepsy

AM Feyissa, AS López Chiriboga… - Neurology …, 2017 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: We aimed to report the pattern of usage and efficacy of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs)
in patients with autoimmune epilepsy (AE). Methods: We retrospectively studied the Mayo …

Autoimmune epilepsy

M Toledano, SJ Pittock - Seminars in neurology, 2015 - thieme-connect.com
Seizures are recognized as a common manifestation of autoimmune limbic encephalitis and
multifocal paraneoplastic disorders, but accumulating evidence supports an autoimmune …

Epilepsy: an autoimmune disease?

J Palace, B Lang - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2000 - jnnp.bmj.com
Epilepsy may present as a symptom of many neurological disorders and often an
aetiological explanation cannot be identified. There is growing evidence that autoimmune …

The recognition and treatment of autoimmune epilepsy in children

J Suleiman, RC Dale - Developmental Medicine & Child …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There is emerging interest in autoimmune epilepsy, which represents a small but potentially
treatable form of epilepsy. Most insights into autoimmune epilepsy derive from the recent …

Acute symptomatic seizures secondary to autoimmune encephalitis and autoimmune‐associated epilepsy: conceptual definitions

C Steriade, J Britton, RC Dale, A Gadoth, SR Irani… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seizures are a well‐recognized and often prominent manifestation of autoimmune
encephalitic syndromes. Progress in detection of pathogenic neural autoantibodies has led …

Clinical features which predict neuronal surface autoantibodies in new-onset focal epilepsy: implications for immunotherapies

RN McGinty, A Handel, T Moloney… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective To generate a score which clinically identifies surface-directed autoantibodies in
adults with new-onset focal epilepsy, and evaluate the value of immunotherapy in this …

Autoimmune epilepsy

M Levite - Nature immunology, 2002 - nature.com
An estimated 0.5–1% of the world population is epileptic, some with completely unknown
etiology and no effective treatment. Epilepsies have long been viewed as diseases of the …

The growing recognition of immunotherapy-responsive seizure disorders with autoantibodies to specific neuronal proteins

A Vincent, SR Irani, B Lang - Current opinion in neurology, 2010 - journals.lww.com
There are a growing number of specific antibodies associated with new onset epilepsy.
These patients are likely to have an immune-mediated disorder that may benefit from …