Autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes: a systematic literature review resulting in 145 cases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is an important consideration during the diagnostic work-up of secondary mental disorders. Indeed, isolated psychiatric syndromes have been described in case reports of patients with underlying AE. Therefore, the authors performed a systematic literature review of published cases with AE that have predominant psychiatric/neurocognitive manifestations. The aim of this paper is to present the clinical characteristics of these patients.

Methods

The authors conducted a systematic Medline search via Ovid, looking for case reports/series of AEs with antineuronal autoantibodies (Abs) against cell surface/intracellular antigens combined with predominant psychiatric/neurocognitive syndromes. The same was done for patients with Hashimoto encepha

SUBMITTER: Endres D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9069350 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature