A Rare Presentation of Anti-Gad Associated Neurological Disorder in A Fifteen-YearOld Girl

Abstract

Anti-GAD antibodies have been associated with numerous neurological conditions that have a wide variety of presentations. These conditions include limbic encephalitis, stiff person syndrome, opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome, cerebellar ataxia, and status epilepticus. In this paper, we aimed to present a female patient admitted with complaints of acute weakness and right peripheral facial palsy, pancytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly, and anti-glutamate decarboxylase antibody and report the diversity and clinical features of neurological diseases associated with anti-glutamate decarboxylase antibodies. Conclusion Besides the common primary syndromes, other new clinical and neurological manifestations have been associated with anti- anti-glutamate decarboxylase antibodies.