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How would you manage a patient with LGI-1 encephalitis with faciobracial dystonic seizures who has not improved with 3 days of intravenous steroids?

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Neurology · Yale University School of Medicine

I typically treat with five days of IV steroids. In patients with autoimmune encephalitis, including LGI-1, who do not improve after five days of IV steroids, I would then move to IVIG or plasmapheresis (depending on patient comorbidities, availability of plasmapheresis, and severity of symptoms). I...

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