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. 2019 May 14;10:472. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00472

Table 1.

Summary of clinical presentations, paraclinical investigations and follow-up data of patients with autoimmune encephalopathy.

Case number Age Antibody Clinical presentation CSF MRI EEG Time to diagnosis
(months)
mRS
(diagnosis)
mRS
(last visit)
1 16 NMDA Psychosis, seizures, encephalopathy, rigidity, dyskinesias, dysautonomia Cells-2, Protein-57 Occipital subcortical hyperintensities Extreme delta brush 4 5 0
2 16 NMDA Seizures, encephalopathy, dyskinesias, dysautonomia, akinetic mutism NL NL Extreme delta brush 4 5 0
3 17 NMDA Psychosis, seizures, encephalopathy, myoclonus, dyskinesias, dysautonomia NL NL Slow theta and delta waves 4 5 0
4 26 NMDA Encephalopathy, dyskinesias, dysautonomia, dystonia Cells-336, Protein-16 Cortical hyperintensities Diffuse slowing 2 4 2
5 26 NMDA Psychosis, myoclonus, encephalopathy, dyskinesias, seizures, dyasutonomia Cells-22, Protein-20 NL Diffuse slowing 4 4 0
6 4 NMDA Seizures, agressiveness, encephalopathy, dyskinesias, akinetic mutism NL NL Slow activity 3 5 4
7 5 NMDA Encephalopathy, dyskinesias, dystonia NL NL Diffuse slowing 4 4 0
8 14 NMDA Status epilepticus, Encephalopathy, dyskinesias, dystonia NL NL Status Epilepticus 5 5 6
9 23 NMDA Psychosis, akinetic mutism, dyskinesias, dysautonomia Cells−197, Protein-21 NL Diffuse slowing 3 5 0
10 75 LGI1 Faciobrachial dystonic seizures, encephalopathy, memory loss, hyponatremia Cells−10, Protein-40 Right basal nuclei and hipocampal Diffuse slowing 6 5 3
11 73 LGI1 Faciobrachial dystonic seizures, encephalopathy, memory loss, hyponatremia NL NL Diffuse slowing 9 4 0
12 67 AMPA Hyponatremia, agitation, insomnia, memory loss NL NL Diffuse slowing 3 4 3
13 17 NMDA Seizures, agressiveness, mutism, memory loss, encephalopathy Cells-16, Protein-29 NL Diffuse slowing 5 5 1

NMDA, N-methyl-D-asparthate; LGI1, Leucine-rich-glioma-inactivated-1; AMPA, α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid; NL, Normal; CSF, Cerebrospinal fluid; MRI, Magnetic resonance image; mRS, modified Rankin Scale.