The diffuse involvement of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in brain: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a severe and most common autoimmune encephalitis in patients under 40 years old. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis has various clinical and neuroimaging findings. Here we report a special case of an anti-NMDAR encephalitis who had diffuse lesions in bilateral hemispheres with mild mass effects in left basal ganglia area.

Case presentations

A 28-year-old female anti-NMDAR encephalitis patient mainly presented with headache and fever. Brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed slightly contrasted diffuse lesions, involving the left temporal and frontal lobes, left basal ganglia area and splenium of corpus callosum, as well as the right frontal lobe, with mild edema surrounded in the left basal ganglia area. Cerebrosp

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6764129 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature