Immunotherapy-responsive chorea as the presenting feature of LGI1-antibody encephalitis
- 10 July 2012
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 79 (2) , 195-196
Abstract
We describe 2 patients who presented with subacute chorea as the initial feature of autoimmune encephalitis associated with antibodies against leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1), a component of the voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC) complex. ### Case 1. Case 1 was a 77-year-old man whoKeywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Autoantibodies associated with diseases of the CNS: new developments and future challengesThe Lancet Neurology, 2011
- Faciobrachial dystonic seizures precede Lgi1 antibody limbic encephalitisAnnals of Neurology, 2010
- Investigation of LGI1 as the antigen in limbic encephalitis previously attributed to potassium channels: a case seriesThe Lancet Neurology, 2010
- Antibodies to Kv1 potassium channel-complex proteins leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 protein and contactin-associated protein-2 in limbic encephalitis, Morvan’s syndrome and acquired neuromyotoniaBrain, 2010
- Clinical spectrum of voltage-gated potassium channel autoimmunityNeurology, 2008