AUTOIMMUNE LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS

AUTOIMMUNE LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS RELATED TO THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODIES

Authors

  • Samer Almerie Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK.
  • T Ashraf Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK.
  • F Barbosa Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29309/TPMJ/2015.22.08.1166

Abstract

A young female patient presented to the Emergency Department with complains
of headache, photophobia and seizure suggestive of viral or bacterial encephalitis/meningitis.
After examination and multiple investigations, the patient was found to have autoimmune limbic
encephalitisrelated to Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies.

Author Biographies

Samer Almerie, Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK.

Consultant,
Department of Emergency Medicine

T Ashraf, Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK.

Consultant,
Department of Radiology

F Barbosa, Pilgrim Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK.

GPVTS,
Department of Emergency Medicine

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Published

2015-08-10

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 08 (2015): Vol: 22 No. 08

Section

Articles