A case of herpes encephalitis is reported in a patient who had cranial irradiation and high dose steroids for a cerebral neoplasm. Before radiotherapy the patient had had herpetic infections of the skin and eye.

We report a rare case of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis with autoantibodies to glutamate receptor (GluR) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The 35-year-old woman with consciousness disturbance was diagnosed initially as non-herpetic encephalitis. Her signs and symptoms improved with acyclovir and steroid pulse therapy. However, after the treatment, an ovarian tumor was discovered, and we det...

Abstract There are two forms of hyper-immunoglobulin E syndromes (HIES): a dominant form (AD-HIES) is caused by mutations in signal transducer and activator transcription 3 (STAT3), recessive (AR-HIES) dedicator cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8). DOCK8 autosomal hyper IgE syndrome patients have more symptomatic neurologic disease than those with STAT3 deficiency. Involvement the central nervous system HIES...

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