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ArticleThoracic cancer2024

A case of relieving thymoma after conservative management of anti-gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor type A encephalitis.

Yanmei Li, Ning Xie

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Article in Thoracic cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors.

Yanmei LiDepartment of Rheumatology, Qilu Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.ORCID 0009-0009-6748-0487
Ning XieDepartment of Chest Surgery, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, China.

Funding

Shandong Provincial Medical and Health Science and Technology Project 202304020786
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anti-gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor type A (GABAA) encephalitis is a relatively rare autoimmune encephalitis, and often associated with thymoma. Here, a 44-year-old female was diagnosed as having a thymoma with autoimmune encephalitis. At 4-month follow-up she was without recurrence of symptoms after treatment with methylprednisolone pulse therapy and immunotherapy. This case report provides a reference for the identification of this type of paraneoplastic encephalitis and for a therapeutic schedule. It also highlights that conservative treatment may be effective for patients with a tumor and GABAA encephalitis.

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ThymomaAdultConservative TreatmentEncephalitisFemaleHumansReceptors, GABA-AThymus NeoplasmsReceptors, GABA-Aconservative treatmentencephalitisgamma‐aminobutyric acid receptor type Athymoma

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PMID38984426
PMCPMC11333295

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