Autoimmune encephalitis are more common than any single pathogen-related encephalitis and represent an interdisciplinary challenge for neurologists, psychiatrists, neuro-pediatricians, and rehabilitation physicians. In particular, antibody diagnostics are also challenging, since conformational target antigens are involved, not all target antigens have been characterized yet, and only complex diagnostics from serum and CSF examinations in complementary test systems help to avoid false-positive and false-negative findings and thus misdiagnoses.
Please contact us for special questions regarding neurological autoantibodies at neuroimmunologie@uksh.de.
Analysis spectrum
Testing of all characterized neuronal/glial antibodies with screening and confirmatory tests
Testing of the target epitope of known autoantibodies
Screening for unknown neuronal autoantibodies
Testing of gial and synaptic antibodies against fixation sensitive antigens (e.g. MOG)
Management
