Diagnosis: Anti-Ma2 paraneoplastic encephalitis in association with metastatic testicular cancer; initially misdiagnosed as CNS Whipple's disease. A 39-year-old man with remote traumatic brain ...
It can be triggered by an infection elsewhere in the body (post-infectious autoimmune encephalitis) or a tumor ...
NMDAR antibodies are present in serum and CSF, usually with intrathecal synthesis, and are sometimes only detected in the CSF. The main target epitopes are in the NR1/NR2 heteromers of the NMDAR.