A CASE REPORT - AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS MIMICING VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS

This is a case report of thirteen month young female child born out of non consanguineous marriage, full term, with normal developmental milestones upto the age of 8 months who developed fever with seizures treated outside our hospital as CNS infection, hypoxic sequale, presented to our hospital with refractory seizures and abnormal chorea athe toid movements with worsening of milestones. On reevaluation diagnosed as anti-NMDA receptor antibody positive encephalitis and treated with steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin (Iv Ig) showed improvement even after 2 months of illness.