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Original Source: NMDA Receptor Antibody Encephalitis.
N-methyl-D: -aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antibody encephalitis is a recently described immunotherapy-responsive panencephalitis with characteristic features that include a psychiatric onset and a later movement disorder. This entity was first described as a paraneoplastic phenomenon in young women with ovarian teratomata. However, more recently it has become clear that the majority of patients, particularly children, do not harbor a tumor and that males can also be affected. With the development of the NMDAR...
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Most patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis respond to immunotherapy. Second-line immunotherapy is usually effective when first-line treatments fail. In this cohort, the recovery of some patients took...
No Need to Stop Encephalitis Vaccination Says Health Ministry Subcommittee
After two children died from Japanese encephalitis vaccinations, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare set up a subcommittee on the vaccination of infectious diseases regarding Japanese enc...
Immunoassay Detects Five Encephalitis Viruses
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay array had been developed that will detect five different encephalitis viruses.
Cases of rare but deadly encephalitis rising among kids, report finds
(HealthDay)—Although still rare, the extremely serious disease known as Eastern equine encephalitis may be affecting more people than before.
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Mosquito virus could lead to new vaccines and drugs
(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) The newly discovered Eilat virus is closely related to some of the world's most dangerous pathogens but incapable of infecting non-insect hosts. This...
India's Biological E. Markets Nation's First Japanese-Encephalitis Vaccine
Biological E. said it has launched India's first vaccine, JEEV, against the fatal Japanese encephalitis, and expects to export it to other nations.
Chinese Encephalitis Vaccine About To Get Nation's First WHO Approval
China's locally made vaccine for preventing Japanese encephalitis is about to receive approval by the World Health Organization, a first for a Chinese drug.
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Analysis of relapses in anti-NMDAR encephalitis.
The clinical characteristics of patients with relapsing anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis are not well-defined. In this study, we report the clinical profile and outcome of relapses in a series...
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in a young woman with an ovarian tumour.
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis is characterised by psychiatric and neurological abnormalities and occurs in frequent association with ovarian teratoma. We report the first confirmed c...
'Benign' ovarian teratoma and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in a child.
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a life-threatening paraneoplastic neuropsychiatric encephalitis that predominantly affects young women and has a strong association with ovarian t...
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis associated with ovarian immature teratoma.
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is a treatment-responsive encephalitis associated with anti-NMDAR antibodies. Unlike classic paraneoplastic encephalitis, this disorder usu...
Necrotic mature ovarian teratoma associated with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis.
A 20-year-old female with a diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis against N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor was found to have a 13mm teratoma in the left ovary. The tumor had undergone massive coagulative...
