Electroconvulsive therapy and/or plasmapheresis in autoimmune encephalitis?

Table 1 Table demonstrating changes in the patient’s addenbrooke’s cognitive examination-III scores throughout admission and after discharge

ACE-III	During admission	Later during admission	1 mo post plasma exchange	6 mo post ECT and discharge date
	13/01/2014	24/02/2014	17/04/2014	30/01/2015
Total score	82/100	79/100	68/100	92/100
Attention	15/18	15/18	10/18	16/18
Memory	22/26	23/26	17/26	26/26
Fluency	10/14	3/14	3/14	9/14
Language	23/26	24/26	23/26	25/26
Visuospatial	12/16	14/16	15/16	16/16

ECT: Electroconvulsive therapy; ACE-III: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III.

Table 2 Table illustrating the change in geriatric depression scale and brief psychiatric rating scale scores from admission to post-electroconvulsive therapy and discharge

	Geriatric depression scale		Brief psychiatric rating scale
	23/01/2014	30/01/2015	15/05/2014	30/01/2015
	During admission	6 mo post electroconvulsive therapy and discharge date	During admission	6 mo post ECT and discharge date
Score	20/30 (severe depression)	0/30 (Normal)	84 (moderate to severe psychosis)	18 (Normal)