Anti GAD65 Encephalopathy Presenting with Reversible Encephalopathy and Orofacial Dyskinesias
Journal Title: BMH Medical Journal - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Anti GAD65 antibodies have been implicated predominantly in limbic encephalitis in addition to systemic disorders like Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Here a patient presenting with seizures, behavior disturbances, memory and gait abnormalities and peculiar orofacial dyskinesias is reported, who was found to have high titre positivity of Anti-GAD 65 and excellent therapeutic response to steroids, suggesting that this could be an additional phenotype for the encephalopathy caused by this antibody.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohan Leslie Noone
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP327087
- DOI -
- Views 92
- Downloads 0
Paediatric Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia
Blood-Injection-Injury phobia is a major health issue throughout the life span. It usually starts in early childhood. Avoidance of health care is seen in such individuals. Children with blood injection injury phobia have...
Congenital Short QT Syndrome
Congenital short QT syndrome (SQTS) is characterised by extremely short QT intervals, typically with QTc less than 330 ms and a propensity for life threatening ventricular arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation. The QT inte...
Post Hemi Thyroidectomy Hypothyroidism: Risk Factors and Course
Background: Risk factors for post hemithyroidectomy (HT) biochemical hypothyroidism (BH) and its course are not well understood. The aim of the study was to look at the incidence, risk factors and the course of BH after...
EDTA Dependent Pseudothrombocytopenia In A Patient With Scrub Typhus - A Case Report
We report a case of EDTA induced pseudothrombocytopenia (EDTA-PTCP) in a patient with scrub typhus who was referred as a case of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) with marked thrombocytopenia and treated with platelet tran...
Approach to Brugada Syndrome
Brugada Syndrome was initially described by Brugada brothers in their seminal paper published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology in 1992. The syndrome was characterized by syncopal episodes and/or sudden ca...