The researchers found about 14 per 100,000 people had
autoimmune encephalitis in their lifetime, compared to 12 per 100,000 who had infectious encephalitis.
Nakajima defends his group's methodo logy, stating that they adopted a strategy similar to that commonly used in studying
autoimmune encephalitis in mice.
Not exact matches
«The results of our study suggest that doctors evaluating patients with
encephalitis should search for
autoimmune causes
in addition to infectious causes, given both have a similar frequency,» says Eoin Flanagan, M.B., B.Ch., senior author of the population - based study and an
autoimmune neurology specialist at Mayo Clinic.
«Our study showed that clinicians are now detecting more cases of
autoimmune encephalitis than they were
in the past because of the discovery of these new neural autoantibody markers.
In anti-NMDAR
encephalitis and other
autoimmune disorders of the brain, the earlier immunotherapy begins, the more complete the recovery.
«So what have I seen — anaphylactic reactions,
encephalitis - like symptoms, behaviour changes, immune — mediated diseases including
autoimmune hemolytic anemia,
autoimmune thrombocytopenia, immune mediated meningitis / vasculitis, inflammatory bowel disease and other digestive disorders, lower urinary tract disease
in cats, skin tumors, cancer, chronic skin problems, chronic ear inflammation.
All of our evidence ties
in with research
in the human field, and a growing body of veterinary research, which says that vaccines cause allergies, hypersensitivity reactions,
autoimmune disease,
encephalitis, epilepsy, personality changes and brain damage.