non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis
MONDO:0015596Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis is a rare neuroinflammatory/neuroautoimmune disease characterized by an acute (or subacute) onset of disturbance of consciousness (occasionally presenting as convulsions) and high fever, associated with cerebral lesions (on magnetic resonance imaging) that are restricted to the limbic system (particularly the hippocampi and amygdalae), in the absence of viral, bacterial, fungal, paraneoplastic and other disorders.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015596), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of