Autoantibody Associated Movement Disorders in Children: Proven and Proposed

Movement disorders secondary to autoantibodies in children represents a rapidly expanding group of conditions. Once considered to be limited to post streptococcal Sydenham ′s chorea or rare cases of childhood systemic lupus erythematosus, a variety of antibody-related movement abnormalities are now seen as part of non-infectious autoimmune encephalitis or within an expanding list of post-infectious disorders. In this manuscript, several proposed autoantibody mediate d movement disorders in children are reviewed.
Source: Seminars in Pediatric Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research