A day or so before, a specialist had diagnosed Walsh
with autoimmune encephalitis and started her on a regimen of powerful steroids, now considered one of the best treatments for the disease.
Not exact matches
By then, her doctors had diagnosed her
with a mysterious disease called
autoimmune encephalitis, or AE for short.
«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.
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.