Case 27-2018: A 3-Year-Old Boy with Seizures

N Engl J Med. 2018 Aug 30;379(9):870-878. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1802824.

Authors

Mark P Gorman¹, Grace Y Gombolay¹, William A Mehan Jr¹, Ronald L Thibert¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital (M.P.G.), the Departments of Neurology (G.Y.G., R.L.T.), Radiology (W.A.M.), and Pediatrics (R.L.T.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Neurology (M.P.G., G.Y.G., R.L.T.) and Radiology (W.A.M.), Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.

PMID: 30157393
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1802824

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis / complications
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis / diagnosis*
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis / drug therapy
Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
Autoantibodies / blood*
Blood Chemical Analysis
Brain / diagnostic imaging*
Child, Preschool
Diagnosis, Differential
Electroencephalography
Humans
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use
Immunologic Factors / therapeutic use
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate / immunology*
Seizures / drug therapy
Seizures / etiology*
Vomiting / etiology

Substances

Anticonvulsants
Autoantibodies
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
Immunologic Factors
Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate