Neurological Autoantibody Prevalence in Epilepsy of Unknown Etiology

Divyanshu Dubey, Abdulradha Alqallaf, Ryan Hays, Matthew Freeman, Kevin Chen, Kan Ding, Mark Agostini, Steven Vernino

JAMA Neurology · 2017 · 209 citations · 11 references

Abstract

Among adult patients with epilepsy of unknown etiology, a significant minority had detectable serum Abs suggesting an autoimmune etiology. Certain clinical features (encoded in the APE score) could be used to identify patients with the highest probability of harboring neurological Abs.

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