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Tom Heisler was on his last legs when he arrived at Mayo Clinic in September 2024. He had a dire and complicated medical history, and his health was rapidly declining. After nine months of misdiagnoses and unsuccessful treatments, he received the correct diagnosis and a new lease on life in just nine days at Mayo Clinic. Tom Heisler was in good health. The retired psychologist lived an active, vibrant lifestyle — regularly playing golf, writing…
What started as a persistent headache for Spencer Lodin soon devolved into slowed speech, seizures, and hallucinations, symptoms which stumped ER doctors into thinking he had meningitis or was suffering from psychosis. Finally, specialized testing at Mayo Clinic identified Spencer's condition as GFAP-IgG associated autoimmune encephalitis, which allowed for targeted treatment and a full recovery. It was April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, when Spencer Lodin, 37, a mail carrier from the Twin…
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