title: Clinical evaluation of youth with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS): recommendations from the 2013 PANS Consensus Conference.
abstract: On May 23 and 24, 2013, the First PANS Consensus Conference was convened at Stanford University, calling together a geographically diverse group of clinicians and researchers from complementary fields of pediatrics: General and developmental pediatrics, infectious diseases, immunology, rheumatology, neurology, and child psychiatry. Participants were academicians with clinical and research interests in pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcus (PANDAS) in youth, and the larger category of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). The goals were to clarify the diagnostic boundaries of PANS, to develop systematic strategies for evaluation of suspected PANS cases, and to set forth the most urgently needed studies in this field. Presented here is a consensus statement proposing recommendations for the diagnostic evaluation of youth presenting with PANS.
authors.affiliation: 1 Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program, Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford, CA.
authors.forename: Kiki
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authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Jennifer
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authors.lastname: Frankovich
authors.forename: Michael
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authors.lastname: Cooperstock
authors.forename: Madeleine W
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authors.lastname: Cunningham
authors.forename: M Elizabeth
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authors.lastname: Latimer
authors.forename: Tanya K
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authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Mark
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authors.lastname: Pasternack
authors.forename: Margo
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authors.lastname: Thienemann
authors.forename: Kyle
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authors.lastname: Williams
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authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: Susan E
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authors.lastname: Swedo
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D013577:Syndrome