Patients and Controls
We recruited 5 patients diagnosed of anti-NMDAR encephalitis (all patients with anti-NMDAR antibody positive) and 7 controls from Nanjing Brain Hospital. The anti-NMDAR encephalitis diagnosed criteria of 2016 were chosen as the inclusive criteria for the group of patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis 28. These control subjects consisted of patients with 6 patients with hydrocephalus and 1 patient with acute head trauma and all of them have no autoimmune encephalitis. The baseline characteristics of patients (n = 5) and controls (n = 7) were shown in Table 1.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University.