Hana Mojžišová, Martin Elišák, David Krýsl, Jitka Hanzalová, Adam Kalina, Marko Petržalka, Irena Doležalová, Matěj Červenka, Barbora Cvičková, Robert Leško, Jan Šroubek, Daniela Sochůrková, Jan Hemza, Eva Brichtová, Justina Dargvainiene, Zdeněk Vojtěch, Milan Brázdil, Klaus-Peter Wandinger, Frank Leypoldt, Petr Marusič
OBJECTIVE: Refractory epilepsy may have an underlying autoimmune etiology. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of neural autoantibodies in a multicenter national prospective cohort of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy undergoing epilepsy surgery utilizing comprehensive clinical, serologic, and histopathological analyses. METHODS: We prospectively recruited patients undergoing epilepsy surgery for refractory focal epilepsy not caused by a brain tumor from epilepsy surgery centers in the Czech Republic...
January 27, 2024: Epilepsia