1. Anti‐glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy.
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Panegyres, Peter K., Caldow, Jimmy, Wang, Charlotte, and Van Heerden, Jolandi
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AUTOIMMUNE disease diagnosis ,DIAGNOSIS of neurological disorders ,BRAIN diseases ,AUTOANTIBODIES ,AUTOIMMUNE diseases ,COGNITION disorders ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,CYTOSKELETAL proteins ,IMMUNOLOGY technique ,MAGNETIC resonance imaging ,METHOTREXATE ,NEUROLOGICAL disorders ,NEUROLOGIC examination ,TREMOR ,WEIGHT loss ,METHYLPREDNISOLONE ,PREDNISOLONE ,MAGNETIC resonance angiography - Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 59-year-old right-handed woman presented with an encephalopathy and her family reported a two-week history of worsening cognition and confusion, with two months' history of deteriorating gait. It revealed the characteristic magnetic resonance findings of linear perivascular enhancement.
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- 2020
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