Abstracts

Disordered Neuronal Excitability in anti-lgi1 Autoimmune Encephalitis

Abstract number : 2.572
Submission category : 5. Neuro Imaging / 5B. Functional Imaging
Year : 2024
Submission ID : 1383
Source : www.aesnet.org
Presentation date : 12/8/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Authors :
Presenting Author: Yudi Zhang, MD – Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University; The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University

Ruijuan Lv, MD, PhD – Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University; China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases
Qun Wang, MD – Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, China

Rationale: In patients with anti-leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) autoimmune encephalitis, the antibodies bind to the LGI1 protein, which lead to reversible damage of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) and abnormal neuronal excitability.

Methods: We retrospectively compared the difference of whole brain amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (ALFF) between 19 patients with anti-LGI1 autoimmune encephalitis and 19 healthy controls.

Results: In patients with anti-LGI1 autoimmune encephalitis, the ALFF increased in bilateral frontal lobe, parietal lobe, thalamus, left putamen, temporal lobe, hippocampus, occipital lobe, cerebellum, right caudate nucleus and brain stem; decreased in bilateral frontal lobe, right parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe. (threshold-free cluster enhancement permutation 5000 times, P < 0.001, cluster > 50 voxels)

Conclusions: In patients with anti-LGI1 autoimmune encephalitis, the neuronal excitability is widely disordered in frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, thalamus, hippocampus, basal ganglia, cerebellum, and brain stem.

Funding: This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China grant [2022YFC2503800], National Natural Science Foundation of China [82371449], the Beijing Natural Science Foundation [7232045, Z200024 and L222033], Capital Health Research and Development of Special grants [2020-1-2013], and the health commission of Hebei Province [20230635].

Neuro Imaging