CLINICAL CASE OF A CHILD WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS AND AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOPATHY
Margarita Alexieva Archinkova*, Maia Mincheva Konstantinova, Radka Savova Hristova, Daniel Iliev Iliev, Ivan Olegovich Litvinenko
ABSTRACT
Autoimmune etiology is being increasingly discussed as a cause of encephalopathy and intractable epilepsy in children and teenagers. Suspicion for autoimmune encephalopathy arises in patients with another established autoimmune disorder. We present a girl diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 5 years. The initial immunological laboratory data showed positive autoantibodies: GAD- 65 Ab = 92.5 IU/ml (n. v.
Keywords: autoimmune encephalopathy, autoimmune epilepsy, type 1 diabetes mellitus, anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies (GAD-Ab).
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