Predictors and Clinical Characteristics of Relapses in LGI1-Antibody Encephalitis

Lucia Campetella1, Antonio Farina1, Macarena Villagrán-García1

  • 1From the French Reference Center for Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes and Autoimmune Encephalitis (L.C., A.F., M.V.-G., M.V., M.B., A.V., G.P., V.R., B.J., J.H., S.M.-C.), Hospices Civils de Lyon; MeLiS - UCBL-CNRS UMR 5284 - INSERM U1314 (L.C., A.F., M.V.-G., M.B., A.V., B.J., J.H., S.M.-C.), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France; Department of Neuroscience (A.F.), Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence, Italy; Department of Biostatistics (N.T.), Hospices Civils de Lyon, France; Clinical Neurology (A.V.), Santa Maria Della Misericordia University Hospital, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale (ASU FC); Department of Medicine (DAME) (A.V.), University of Udine, Italy; Neurology Department 2-Mazarin (D.P.), Hôpitaux Universitaires La Pitié Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, APHP; Brain and Spinal Cord Institute (D.P.), INSERM U1127/CNRS UMR 7255, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Universités Sorbonnes, Paris; Neurology Department (M.R.), Hôpital Pierre Paul Riquet, CHU de Toulouse; Neurology Department (E.C.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand; Neurology Department (C.M.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux; Immunology Department (D.G.), Hôpital Lyon Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France; and Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine (S.M.-C.), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

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