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Disease encephalitis
Symptom C0036572|seizures
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PubMedID- 26444013 Background: encephalitis presents with seizures in the acute phase and increases the risk of late unprovoked seizures and epilepsy.
PubMedID- 25036107 In addition, one individual experienced epileptic seizures due to limbic encephalitis (le) with anti-gad antibodies.
PubMedID- 25888964 We report a 37 year old woman, 33 weeks pregnant, who presented with seizures due to proven hsv-1 encephalitis, and who had had a previous episode of probable viral encephalitis aged 14 years.
PubMedID- 23226176 We present a case of limbic encephalitis which presented with sudden onset seizures which was preceded by confusion, disorientation and other psychiatric symptoms for a period of 5 weeks.
PubMedID- 25738169 Gabaa receptor is one of the latest identified antigens within this category.1 high-titer serum and csf gabaa receptor antibodies were recently reported in 6 patients with autoimmune encephalitis associated with seizures or status epilepticus, 4 of them requiring pharmacologic-induced coma.
PubMedID- 24443450 seizures as first symptom of anti-nmda receptor encephalitis are more common in men.
PubMedID- 24462240 These 12 patients (age 2-74 years, median 26.5 years; seven male patients) developed a broader spectrum of symptoms probably indicative of coexisting autoimmune disorders: six had encephalitis with seizures (one with status epilepticus needing pharmacologically induced coma; one with epilepsia partialis continua), four had stiff-person syndrome (one with seizures and limbic involvement), and two had opsoclonus-myoclonus.
PubMedID- 22880096 Csf lactate concentrations can be raised in association with seizures, bactarial, fungal of tuberculous meningitis or encephalitis, cerebral ischemia, neurosarcoidosis, malignancy and metabolic disorders .
PubMedID- 25523929 During hospitalization, seizures were seen in patients with autoimmune encephalitis (n=24, 54.5%), unknown/others (n=20, 33.9%), and viral encephalitis (n=23, 24.2%).
PubMedID- 24128682 Since the original description of 3 pediatric patients with the title “focal seizures due to chronic localized encephalitis” by rasmussen in 1958 (1), most researchers and clinicians have used the term rasmussen encephalitis (re) or rasmussen syndrome for this condition (24).
PubMedID- PMC4599904 Frequently, immunomediated encephalitis presents with seizures, including status epilepticus, sometimes refractory.
PubMedID- 25887770 Type-a gamma-aminobutyric acid (gabaa) receptor antibodies have been recently identified in encephalitis with refractory seizures, whereas the roles of antibodies to the glycine receptor and dipeptidyl peptidase-like protein 6 have been defined in progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus.
PubMedID- 26423537 Furthermore, autoimmune encephalitis as a cause of seizures is reviewed.
PubMedID- 20544559 The client developed seizures following an episode of mycoplasma encephalitis at the age of 7.
PubMedID- 20566207 Fourteen children were subsequently excluded due to either co-infections/misdiagnosis (6 had acute bacterial meningitis, 4 had febrile seizures and 3 with viral encephalitis excluded on the basis of a csf cell count of more than 20 cells/mm3) or excessive eeg artefact (1 child).
PubMedID- 22964438 encephalitis may present with seizures or status epilepticus, and the etiology is usually presumed.
PubMedID- 24404386 Aggressive management (including intravenous corticosteroids) of seizures in patients diagnosed with mp encephalitis can potentially support the improvement of functional recovery and future seizure control.
PubMedID- 21620774 Our cases confirm prior reports that immune therapy can better control seizures associated with gadab autoimmune encephalitis, and support the rationale for assaying for gadab titers in patients with etiologically unclear extralimbic lesions and refractory epilepsy, independent of seizure types.
PubMedID- 25964741 The first case of association between familial thomsen myotonia and epilepsy has been presented very recently, with the description of one individual belonging to a two-generation family suffering from clc-1-linked myotonia, who experienced epileptic seizures due to limbic encephalitis with antibodies against glutamate decarboxylase (licchetta et al., 2014).
PubMedID- 20731268 Limbic encephalitis presenting with seizures, anterograde amnesia, and psychosis in a patient seven weeks status post immature ovarian teratoma removal.
PubMedID- 20132860 encephalitis manifests with altered sensorium, seizures and focal neurological deficit.
PubMedID- 24959363 The typical clinical feature of this encephalitis presents with neuropsychiatric symptoms, seizures, catatonia, unresponsiveness, dyskinesias, and central hypoventilation.

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