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Paraneoplastic encephalitis, psychiatric symptoms, and hypoventilation in ovarian teratoma

2005· article· en· 603 citations· W2075429637 on OpenAlex· 10.1002/ana.20614

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Domain
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Study design
Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
Genre
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Teacher disagreement score
0.027
Threshold uncertainty score
0.357
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread
0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

We report four young women who developed acute psychiatric symptoms, seizures, memory deficits, decreased level of consciousness, and central hypoventilation associated with ovarian teratoma (OT) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) inflammatory abnormalities. Three patients recovered with treatment of the tumor or immunosuppression and one died of the disorder. Five other OT patients with a similar syndrome and response to treatment have been reported. Our patients' serum or CSF showed immunolabeling of antigens that were expressed at the cytoplasmic membrane of hippocampal neurons and processes and readily accessed by antibodies in live neurons. Immunoprobing of a hippocampal-expression library resulted in the isolation of EFA6A, a protein that interacts with a member of the two-pore-domain potassium channel family and is involved in the regulation of the dendritic development of hippocampal neurons. EFA6A-purified antibodies reproduced the hippocampal immunolabeling of all patients' antibodies and colocalized with them at the plasma membrane. These findings indicate that in a young woman with acute psychiatric symptoms, seizures, and central hypoventilation, a paraneoplastic immune-mediated syndrome should be considered. Recognition of this disorder is important because despite the severity of the symptoms, patients usually recover. The location and function of the isolated antigen suggest that the disorder is directly mediated by antibodies.

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The record

Venue
Annals of Neurology
Topic
Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
Field
Medicine
Canadian institutions
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Funders
National Cancer Institute
Keywords
ImmunolabelingOvarian TeratomaHypoventilationHippocampal formationLimbic encephalitisCerebrospinal fluidMedicineAntibodyImmunologyImmunosuppressionNeurosciencePathologyTeratomaInternal medicinePsychologyAutoantibodyRespiratory systemImmunohistochemistry
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