Open AccessA CASE REPORT ON ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS
Author(s) -
Anila Kn,
Sherin Alexander
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian journal of pharmaceutical and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2455-3891
pISSN - 0974-2441
DOI - 10.22159/ajpcr.2017v10i1.14837
Subject(s) - nmda receptor , encephalitis , neuroscience , immune system , receptor , medicine , pathology , chemistry , immunology , biology , virus
Anti N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) re-ceptor en-cephalitis is an immune medi-ated disorder and it is a dis-order of the limbic system that largelyaf-fects female children. Anti-NMDA recep-tor encephalitis was actually described as a paraneoplastic syndrome as it is associated with ovarianteratomas con-taining neural tissue with an-tibodies cross reacting to the NMDA recep-tors. Here we discuss a case of NMDA re-ceptor en-cephalitis.Keywords: Anti NMDA, Paraneoplastic Syndrome, Tera-toma.