Bilateral frontal cortex encephalitis and paraparesis in a patient with anti-MOG antibodies

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 Jun;88(6):534-536. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2016-315094. Epub 2017 Feb 16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan.
² Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
³ Department of Neurology, Yonezawa National hospital, Yonezawa, Japan.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
⁵ Department of Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

PMID: 28209651
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2016-315094

No abstract available

Keywords: NEUROIMMUNOLOGY.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Autoantibodies / immunology*
Biopsy
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / pathology
Encephalitis / diagnostic imaging
Encephalitis / drug therapy
Encephalitis / immunology*
Encephalitis / pathology
Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging*
Frontal Lobe / pathology
Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Methylprednisolone / therapeutic use
Middle Aged
Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein / immunology*
Paraparesis / diagnostic imaging
Paraparesis / drug therapy
Paraparesis / immunology*
Paraparesis / pathology
Prednisolone / therapeutic use

Substances

Autoantibodies
Glucocorticoids
MOG protein, human
Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein
Prednisolone
Methylprednisolone