Analysis of relapses in anti-NMDAR encephalitis.

Objective: The clinical characteristics of patients with relapsing anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis are not well-defined. In this study, we report the clinical profile and outcome of relapses in a series of anti-NMDAR encephalitis.

Methods: We did a retrospective review of relapses that occurred in 25 patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis.

[Joint presentation of facial hemangioma, posterior fossa malformation, and carotid-vertebral hypoplasia (Pascual-Castroviejo syndrome II): report of 2 new cases].

Introduction: The association of external capillary hemangiomas with intracranial malformations (vascular or nonvascular) was first described by Pascual-Castroviejo in 1978. The commonest anomalies found included: Dandy-Walker syndrome, cerebellar hypoplasia, arterial angiomas and alterations in the origin or distribution of the main cerebral arteries. In 1996 the same author named it the 'hemangiovascular complex syndrome'.