In the Question and Answer session, Komaroff was asked if neuro-inflammation was not encephalomyelitis, to which he replied: "Yes. If it were confirmed by multiple other investigators it would, for me, say that there is a low-grade, chronic encephalitis in these patients, that the image we clinicians have of encephalitis as an acute and often dramatic clinical presentation that can even be fatal has – may have – blinded us to the possibility that there may be an entity of long-lasting – many years long – cyclic, chronic, neuro-inflammation and that that underlies the symptoms of this illness", commenting that it was "entirely plausible and these data are consistent with it".
http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/Komaroff-Summary-San-Francisco-March-2014.htm
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