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To review the clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, disease classification, and immunosuppressive management of autoimmune encephalitis.

January 1, 2016Journal of Clinical NeurologyOpen Access

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Autoimmune Encephalitis

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To review the clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, disease classification, and immunosuppressive management of autoimmune encephalitis.
Synthesizes diagnostic approaches involving clinical neurological signs, magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, and autoantibody testing.
Classifies disease subtypes according to target antigen location, including cell-surface proteins, intracellular synaptic proteins, and intracellular paraneoplastic antigens.
Autoimmune encephalitis presents with subacute cognitive deficits and neuropsychiatric manifestations across four distinct antibody- and cell-mediated pathophysiological groups.
Underlying tumors drive multiple forms of the disease, making oncologic screening and concurrent long-term immunosuppression essential to achieve recovery and prevent relapse.

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Clinical review outlines diagnostic pathways and treatments for autoimmune encephalitis, highlighting the essential role of autoantibody profiling and tumor screening.

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Eric Lancaster (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d9b0253e67f8d138684288 https://doi.org/10.3988/jcn.2016.12.1.1

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Clinical review outlines diagnostic pathways and treatments for autoimmune encephalitis, highlighting the essential role of autoantibody profiling and tumor screening.

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Autoimmune Encephalitis

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