• Crit Care Resusc · Mar 2013

    A case series of critically ill patients with anti- N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis.

    • Anand Krishnan, Peter S Kruger, Elena Cavazzoni, Simon J Erickson, Alan H Rashid, and Brad A Wibrow.
    • Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz
    • Crit Care Resusc. 2013 Mar 1;15(1):8-14.

    AbstractAnti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis causes autonomic disturbances, behavioural changes and abnormal movements. It is often a paraneoplastic phenomenon that occurs in association with ovarian teratomas and is the most common paraneoplastic encephalitis. We report nine cases of critically ill patients with anti- NMDA receptor encephalitis from Australia and New Zealand. One patient died and one had a poor neurological recovery. The remaining patients made substantial or complete neurological recoveries. This case series highlights that patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: • often require long periods of support in an intensive care unit; • may develop tracheostomy complications related to hypersalivation; • may develop life-threatening hyperthermia; • can have ovarian teratomas despite normal investigations; and • often have very abnormal movements that are difficult to control and make ongoing care difficult.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…