Journal article
Anti–N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitis: A newly recognized inflammatory brain disease in children
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is a newly recognized antineuronal antibody-mediated inflammatory brain disease that causes severe psychiatric and neurologic deficits in previously healthy children. The present study was undertaken to describe characteristic clinical features and outcomes in children diagnosed as having anti-NMDAR encephalitis.
METHODS: Consecutive children presenting over a 12-month …
Authors
Luca N; Daengsuwan T; Dalmau J; Jones K; deVeber G; Kobayashi J; Laxer RM; Benseler SM
Journal
Arthritis & Rheumatism, Vol. 63, No. 8, pp. 2516–2522
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 2011
DOI
10.1002/art.30437
ISSN
0004-3591