Questions & Answers
with Dritan Agalliu, Ph.D.
Watch the extended Q and A from our recent PANS PANDAS AE webinar The Role of Adaptive Immunity and Genetic Risk Factors in Vascular and Neuronal Dysfunction in Post-Infectious Autoimmune Encephalitis, featuring Dritan Agalliu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
PANS/PANDAS CLINICIAN RESOURCES
DIAGNOSING PANS/PANDAS
Access published criteria, symptoms associated with PANS and PANDAS, and additional tools to help health care providers navigate evaluating their patients.
TREATING PANS/PANDAS
Access information on treating PANS and PANDAS with antimicrobials, immunomodulatory therapy, and psychotherapeutic and behavioral therapy.
SEEING YOUR FIRST PATIENT
This publication helps clinicians new to PANS/PANDAS by providing an overview, symptoms and diagnostic criteria, workup recommendations, and expectations.
FLOWCHARTS
Follow the process for determining the appropriate diagnosis and symptom severity-based treatment protocols for mild, moderate, and severe/extreme cases.
WATCH THE FREE CME WEBINAR:
The Role of Adaptive Immunity and Genetic Risk Factors in Vascular and Neuronal Dysfunction in Post-Infectious Autoimmune Encephalitis
Presented by Dritan Agalliu, Ph.D.
OUR MISSION
The PPN mission is to maintain the industry standard PPN Guidelines for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, foster continuous education and communication within the multi-disciplinary medical community and to sponsor research for developing diagnostic tests, treatment protocols and a cure for PANDAS/PANS within this generation.
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ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Public Health Advisory Committees for PANDAS and PANS are done through a collaboration of health care and community-based partnerships. The list of committees are organized by state.
Research: Nature and Science of Sleep
Artificial Neural Networks Analysis of polysomnographic and clinical features in PANS: from sleep alteration to “Brain Fog”
“Polysomnography was abnormal in 73.9% of our patients which is consistent with the finding of PANS consortium reporting sleep alterations in about 80% of patients with PANS both at the onset of symptoms and after the acute phase.”
Research: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
Evaluation of Intravenous Immunoglobulin in PANS
“In this population of PANS subjects, all psychometric endpoints studied exhibited statistically significant decreases following six infusions of IVIG…The durability of response is also noteworthy.”
PANS/PANDAS RESEARCH AND LITERATURE
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