Allergy in patients with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis show higher allergic rate than those with virus encephalitis. Patients with allergy show higher CSF antibody titers and greater illness severity. However, the final outcome of anti-NMDAR encephalitis was not influenced.
PMID: 29306850 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - January 4, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Jiang XY, Zhang L, Jiang X, Abdulaziz ATA, Wang YH, Li JM, Zhou D Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research