Children With PANS May Manifest POTS.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) is characterized by an abrupt-onset of severe psychiatric symptoms including OCD, anxiety, cognitive difficulties, and sleep issues which is thought to be a post-infection brain inflammatory disorder. We observed postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) which resolved with immunomodulation in a patient with Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). Here, we aim to present a case of POTS and to examine the prevalence of (POTS) in our PANS cohort, and compare the clinical characteristics of patients with and without POTS.

Study design

We conducted this cohort study of patients meeting PANS criteria who had at least three clinic visits during the study period. We included data from prospecti

SUBMITTER: Chan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9086964 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature