Autoimmune seizures and epilepsy

C Geis, J Planagumà, M Carreño… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The rapid expansion in the number of encephalitis disorders associated with autoantibodies
against neuronal proteins has led to an incremental increase in use of the term “autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] Autoimmune epilepsy

KS Husari, D Dubey - Neurotherapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
The field of autoimmune epilepsy has evolved substantially in the last few decades with
discovery of several neural autoantibodies and improved mechanistic understanding of …

Clinical approach to the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis in the pediatric patient

T Cellucci, H Van Mater, F Graus, E Muscal… - Neurology …, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is an important and treatable cause of acute
encephalitis. Diagnosis of AE in a developing child is challenging because of overlap in …

Antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases of the CNS: challenges and approaches to diagnosis and management

E Sechi, EP Flanagan - Frontiers in neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Antibody-mediated disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) are increasingly
recognized as neurologic disorders that can be severe and even life-threatening but with the …

Pediatric autoimmune encephalitis: recognition and diagnosis

MAAM de Bruijn, AL Bruijstens… - Neurology …, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective The aims of this study were (1) to describe the incidence of autoimmune
encephalitis (AIE) and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) in children,(2) to …

Seizure specificities in patients with antibody‐mediated autoimmune encephalitis

A Vogrig, B Joubert, N André‐Obadia, GL Gigli… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating data on patients with autoimmune encephalitis have shed light on specificities
concerning clinical presentation and outcomes, which are dependent on the antigen …

The autoantibody-mediated encephalitides: from clinical observations to molecular pathogenesis

S Ramanathan, A Al-Diwani, P Waters, SR Irani - Journal of Neurology, 2021 - Springer
The autoimmune encephalitis (AE) syndromes have been characterised by the detection of
autoantibodies in serum and/or cerebrospinal fluid which target the extracellular domains of …

Stop testing for autoantibodies to the VGKC-complex: only request LGI1 and CASPR2

S Michael, P Waters, SR Irani - Practical Neurology, 2020 - pn.bmj.com
Autoantibodies to leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) and contactin-associated protein
like-2 (CASPR2) are associated with clinically distinctive syndromes that are highly …

Differential diagnosis and comparison of diagnostic algorithms in children and adolescents with autoimmune encephalitis in Spain: a prospective cohort study and …

G Olivé-Cirera, E Fonseca, LW Chen, A Fetta… - The Lancet …, 2025 - thelancet.com
Background The usefulness of current diagnostic approaches in children with suspected
autoimmune encephalitis is unknown. We aimed to assess the diagnosis of autoimmune …

LGI1 and CASPR2 autoimmunity in children: systematic literature review and report of a young girl with Morvan syndrome

M Nosadini, I Toldo, B Tascini, CG Bien… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Leucine-rich glioma-inactivated protein 1 (LGI1) and contactin-associated protein-like 2
(CASPR2) neurological autoimmunity in adults has been associated with various clinical …