Research Article

Differential Diagnosis of Autoimmune Encephalitis from Infectious Lymphocytic Encephalitis by Analysing the Lymphocyte Subsets of Cerebrospinal Fluid

Table 1

The basic clinical information of enrolled patients.

NMDAR-AE
()
HSVE
()
TBM
()
Sig.

Sex (/%)Pearson’s ,
 Female15 (71.43%)14 (60.87%)9 (40.91%)
 Male6 (28.57%)9 (39.13%)13 (59.09%)
Age yrs [ (range)] (11-72) (10-68) (13-78),
Length [ (range)] (3-18) (1-19) (2-17),
BT (/%)Pearson’s ,
 <37.3°C2 (9.52%)0 (0%)1 (4.55%)
 37.3-38.9°C16 (76.19%)8 (34.78%)16 (72.72%)
 >39.0°C3 (14.29%)15 (65.22%)5 (22.73%)

Note: “Length” means the time (days) from the disease onset to the CSF collection. “BT” means the oral body temperature at admission. Pearson’s was obtained from chi-square test and value was from one-way ANOVA.