Important differential in a patient presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms: Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor encephalitis
- Author:
Jer Ming Low
- Publication Type:Case report
- Keywords:
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor encephalitis;
anti-NMDAR;
Auto-immune encephalitis;
neuropsychiatric symptoms
- MeSH:
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis;
Encephalitis
- From:
The Medical Journal of Malaysia
2017;72(5):306-307
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is
an immune mediated condition, which remains relatively
unknown in Malaysia outside tertiary hospitals with
neurology unit. It is often misdiagnosed as a psychiatric
illness before definitive treatment is instituted. We report
here an 18-year-old man who initially presented to the
psychiatry unit before he was subsequently diagnosed as
having anti-NMDAR encephalitis. To our knowledge, this is
the first reported case of anti-NMDAR encephalitis in the
east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
