Affiliation:
1. Department of Infectious Diseases and Child Neurology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 27/33 Szpitalna St., 60-572 Poznan, Poland
2. Department of Neurology, Division of Neurochemistry and Neuropathology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 49 Przybyszewskiego St., 60-355 Poznan, Poland
Abstract
Various primarily non-autoimmune neurological disorders occur synchronously with autoantibodies against tissues in the nervous system. We aimed to assess serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) autoantibodies in children with neurologic disorders. To find new diagnostic tools, we compared the laboratory and clinical findings between the distinguished groups. Retrospectively, 508 patients were divided into six subgroups: neuroinfections, pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections, neurologic autoimmune and demyelinating diseases, epilepsy, pervasive developmental disorders and other patients. We analysed serum anti-aquaporin-4, antiganglioside, neuronal antinuclear and cytoplasmic antibodies, as well as antibodies against surface neuronal and synaptic antigens in the CSF and serum. We involved available demographic and clinical data. Autoantibodies appeared in 165 (32.3%) children, with 24 showing multiple types of them. The most common were anti-neuroendothelium (anti-NET), anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAr), anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein and anti-myelin antibodies bothering 46/463 (9.9%), 32/343 (9.4%), 27/463 (5.8%) and 27/463 (5.8%), respectively. Anti-NET and anti-NMDAr antibodies appeared more frequently in children with autoimmunity (p = 0.017; p < 0.001, respectively), increasing the autoimmune disease risk (OR = 2.18, 95% CI 1.13–13.97; OR = 3.91, 95% CI 1.86–8.22, respectively). Similar pathomechanisms appeared in diseases of different aetiology with clinical spectrums mimicking each other, so we proposed the model helping to diagnose autoimmune disease. We proved the influence of age, living place and medical history on the final diagnosis.
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Poznan University of Medical Sciences
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