... encephalitis Antiepileptics Immunomodulatory treatment Patient outcome In the last few years, an increasing number of auto-antibodies has been detected in patients with new onset epilepsy, leading to the concept of a subgroup of epilepsy as an autoimmune disease [ 1,2,3 ]. Some antibodies (AB) like...

... approved by the local ethics review committee at Kawasaki Medical School. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. Statistical analysis was performed using StatView version 5 statistical software to establish associations among clinical factors and patient outcomes at 3 months after t...