Links To Dr. Josh Farkas’ Outstanding IBNCC Chapter “Autoimmune Encephalitis

In this post, I link to Dr. Josh Farkas‘ outstanding Internet Book of Neurocritical Care [Link is to the IBNCC TOC] chapter, Autoimmune Encephalitis, June 22, 2022.

All that follows is from Dr. Farkas’ resource above.

CONTENTS

• Definitions & classifications
• General clinical features
• Diagnostic evaluation
  • CSF evaluation
  • MRI
  • EEG
  • Evaluation for underlying malignancy
• Anatomic classification
  • Limbic encephalitis
  • Cortical-subcortical encephalitis
  • Basal ganglia involvement, including striatal encephalitis
  • Diencephalic encephalitis
  • Brainstem encephalitis
  • Cerebellitis
  • Meningoencephalitis
  • Encephalomyelitis
• Classification by antibody
  • Antibodies against intracellular proteins
  • Antibodies against cell surface proteins
• Management of autoimmune encephalitis
• Specific disorders
  • Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
  • Checkpoint inhibitor induced encephalitis
  • Hashimoto’s encephalopathy
• Podcast
• Questions & discussion
• Pitfalls

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