Seeing elephants and drinking water from a porcelain vase - a case of septin-7 antibody-associated encephalitis presenting as a severe disorganized psychosis
Authors
- Arnim Johannes Gaebler
- Friederike A Arlt
- Madeleine Scharf
- Stefan Wolking
- Yvonne Weber
- Simone Tauber
- Marieluise Kirchner
- Philipp Mertins
- Christian Boy
- Irene Neuner
- Thomas Frodl
- Ludger Tebartz van Elst
- Harald Prüss
- Ana Novakovic
Journal
- Translational Psychiatry
Citation
- Transl Psychiatry 16 (1): 71
Abstract
Identifying autoimmune encephalitis (AIE) in patients with predominant psychiatric symptoms poses a diagnostic challenge for psychiatrists and neurologists, especially when CSF and MRI findings are inconclusive. We report a case of septin-7 AIE presenting as steroid-responsive psychosis, whose definite diagnosis could only be made years after onset.