'Smoldering' autoimmune inflammatory pathophysiology in epilepsies

'Smoldering' autoimmune inflammatory pathophysiology in epilepsies - Autoimmune inflammatory pathophysiology in epilepsies

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000006800

Enrollment

Registered

2012-01-04

Start date

2012-01-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Epilepsy

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1) Non-infectious, so-called smoldering encephalitis cases with medically intractable epilepsy during their chronic course. 2) Patients with partial epilepsy with chronic and elderly onset of epilepsy at times seem cryptogenic. 3) Relapsing cases after surgical resection of epileptic foci. 4) Epileptic patients with amygdalar enlargement with MRI, but without increased glucose metabolism by FDG-PET.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients with dementia

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Clinical course including auto-antibody titer and other laboratory results, imaging findings and results of neuropsychological tests	—

Countries

Japan

Outcome results