Rate of Autoimmune Encephalitis in Children With First-Episode Psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) can present as first-episode psychosis (FEP) in children. An FEP diagnostic algorithm has been proposed, but how this algorithm applies to children is unknown. We assess the FEP diagnostic algorithm in children with FEP.

Methods

The FEP algorithm was applied to a retrospective cohort of children with FEP without other neurological symptoms.

Results

Twenty-four patients were included, with five AE (anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis) and 19 non-AE patients (12 primary psychiatric, two headaches, mycoplasma-related encephalitis, post-coronavirus disease 2019 encephalitis, drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms [DRESS] syndrome, cobalamin C deficiency, and two unknown). Some non-AE patients (five of 19 =

SUBMITTER: Treiman G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11602345 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature