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Table 2 Anti-AMPAR antibody titer, clinical manifestations, ICU admission, and outcomes in anti-AMPAR encephalitis patients with tumors

From: Anti-alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor encephalitis developed after ovarian cancer cytoreduction surgery: a case report and literature review

Case

Tumor type

Anti-AMPAR antibody titer

Clinical Manifestations

ICU admission

Outcome

Serum

CSF

Ricken, 2021

Lung cancer

1:1600

1:32

Purely amnestic syndrome

Y

Died 3.5 mo after onset because of tumor progression

Yang, 2021

Lung cancer

+

1:10

short-term memory loss, abnormal psychological behaviors

NA

Died of respiratory failure

Zhang, 2021

Lung cancer

1:10

-

Amnesia, confusion, psychiatric disturbances

NA

Improvement in mood disorders and psychosis die of tumor

Zhang, 2021

Lung cancer

1:10

-

Psychiatric disturbances and amnesia

Y

mRS = 0

Dogan Onugoren, 2015

Ovarian tumor

1:16000

NA

Memory deficits (multi-phase), psychosyndrome

NA

mRS = 0

Presented case

Ovarian tumor

1:3.2

1:32

Cognitive dysfunction, consciousness and autonomic dysfunction

Y

mRS = 0

Bataller, 2010

Breast cancer

NA

1:10

Confusion, hypersomnia, visual hallucinations, and combativeness

NA

mRS = 0

LauridoSoto, 2019

Thymic tumor

1:256

1:256

Cognitive dysfunction, psychiatric symptoms, dyskinesia, hypoventilation

Y

mRS = 0

Yang, 2016

Thymic tumor

1:10

-

Paroxysmal paresthesia, seizure, consciousness dysfunction

NA

Died 2 months later

Zhang, 2021

Thymic tumor

1:100

-

Psychiatric disturbances, amnesia, confusion

NA

Died

Zhang, 2021

Thymic tumor

1:100

1:100

Amnesia, consciousness dysfunction, psychiatric disturbances, dyskinesia, right face and perioral numbness

NA

mRS = 0

Luo, 2019

Thymic tumor

1:1000

1:32

Cognitive dysfunction, psychiatric symptoms, autonomic dysfunction

NA

Mild long-time memory deficits

Safadi, 2020

Thymic tumor

NA

1:256 1:3.2(after immunotherapy)

Consciousness and autonomic dysfunction

Y

Significantly improved

Qiao, 2021

Thymic tumor

1:32 1:32(after immunotherapy)

1:3.2 1:1(after immunotherapy)

Cognitive dysfunction, consciousness dysfunction, psychiatric symptoms, dyskinesia

Y

Remained unable to identify his family members, and the aphasia persisted

  1. Y, the patient had ICU admission; NA, data not available