Patient With voltage-gated potassium-channel (VGKC) limbic encephalitis found to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) at autopsy

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2013 Summer;25(3):E05-7. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11120355.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies / blood
  • Autopsy
  • Brain / pathology
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / complications*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Limbic Encephalitis / complications*
  • Limbic Encephalitis / diagnosis
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated / immunology*
  • Prions / metabolism

Substances

  • Antibodies
  • Potassium Channels, Voltage-Gated
  • Prions