What is it about?
The manuscript contains clinical considerations relative to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) patients, which often present a comorbidity with autoimmune syndromes. Therefore, the author recommends to carefully evaluate the immune function of these patients, through simple blood laboratory analysis suggestive of the presence of an inflammatory process, together with autoimmune tests addressing specific pathologies frequently associated to OCD (e.g., autoimmune thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis).
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Why is it important?
The cited observations, corroborated by many clinical studies, will be useful to the pratictioner to better choose the adequate treatment, in light of a possible comorbidity with an autoimmune diathesis.
Perspectives
The author has been working in this clinical field in the last 15 years, finding many similarities with other forms of autoimmune encefalitis. Therefore, the author is willing to share information with other clinicians with similar experiences.
Flavia di Michele
PTV foundation Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome
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This page is a summary of: Improving the management of obsessive-compulsive disorder by considering the autoimmune diathesis, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, June 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0004867417715915.
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