Autoimmune Encephalitis, Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndrome
Conditions
Keywords
autoimmune encephalitis, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, genetic
Brief summary
Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) and paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare neuroimmune syndromes with a wide range of clinical presentation but without pathognomonic clinical sign facilitating the diagnosis. A lot of differential diagnoses are possible such as neurodegenerative diseases or viral infections. Although rare the diagnosis of AE or PNS is essential because despite severe neurological symptoms, patients can be cured by appropriate immunotherapy. Autoantibodies highly specific of AE and PNS has been described in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid of the patients and can be used as biomarkers of the disease. Their presence can predict an autoimmune origin and in many cases a good prognosis after immunotherapy. However, if some autoantibodies are now well-characterized and industrial kits have been developed to detect them, in numerous cases of highly suspect AE or PNS no specific autoantibodies are identified leading frequently to an inappropriate treatment. Furthermore, as the mechanisms of AE and PNS is still unknown, treatments are not optimal and in some cases inefficient. There is no prognosis biomarker able to predict the patient's sensitivity to immunotherapy and there are only few clues to know how the immune system can provoke the neuropsychiatric symptoms observed in the patients.
Interventions
BIOLOGICALGenetic and immunology tests
This is a non-interventional study involving clinical data and biological samples (blood, DNA, CSF, cells). Clinical data are collected for the center and samples are already stored in biobank repositories and collected as part of good clinical practice in the diagnostic process of patients with suspected autoimmune encephalitis, meaning that the standard diagnostic and therapeutic approaches will not be altered in the selected study population. Patients have already gave explicit written consent for biological specimens sampling and storage at the Centre de Ressources Biologiques des Hospices Civils de Lyon (CRB-HCL) (including tissue, cells or biological fluids) and genetic analysis for research purposes.
Sponsors
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patient with neurological disorder * Patient with antibodies or not in sera or CSF
Exclusion criteria
\- No available clinical data
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Correlation between biological results and clinical data | Through study completion, an average of 1year | This measure will compare the result of immunological and genetic makers with clinical data of each patient. |
Countries
France
Contacts
Primary ContactJerome HONNORAT, MD
Backup ContactMarine VILLARD, RCA
Outcome results
None listed