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Anti-NMDA-R encephalitis: an encephalitis lerthargica-like illness

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Posters: no. P14A girl of 3 years and 9 months with a 3-day history of fever and upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) was admitted with a generalised tonic-clonic convulsion, and delirium with screaming, non-sense talking, and agitation. For the first week after admission, she was lethargic with fluctuating awareness and mutism during the day but poor sleep at night. Workup for acute encephalopathy including autoimmune, infective, toxicology, metabolic and vasculitic screening showed negative findings. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was markedly elevated and ...published_or_final_versionThe 1st Hong Kong Neurological Congress cum 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Neurological Society, Hong Kong, 6-8 November 2009. In Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2009, v. 15 n. 6, suppl. 7, p. 47, abstract P1

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