High sensitivity and specificity in proposed clinical diagnostic criteria for anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis.
Alvin C C HoShekeeb S MohammadSekhar C PillaiEsther M TantsisHannah JonesReena HoMing LimYael HacohenAngela VincentRussell C DalePublished in: Developmental medicine and child neurology (2017)
The proposed clinical diagnostic criteria for anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis by Graus et al. (2016) have high sensitivity and specificity in paediatric patients. The median time of fulfilling the criteria in patients with anti-NMDAR was 2 weeks from first symptom onset.