Application of the 2016 diagnostic approach for autoimmune encephalitis from Lancet Neurology to Chinese patients

Table 6 Sensitivity of criteria for ‘possible autoimmune encephalitis’, ‘definite autoimmune limbic encephalitis’ and ‘probable anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis’

	0–14 days	15–30 days	31–90 days	>90 days	P*
pAE^a	60%(32/53)	70%(37/53)	74%(39/53)	81%(43/53)	0.123
dALE^b	10%(2/20)	15%(3/20)	15%(3/20)	35%(7/20)	0.184
prNMDARE^c	16%(5/31)	42%(13/31)	87%(27/31)	100%(31/31)	0.000

^* P < 0.05 is significant
^asensitivity of possible autoimmune encephalitis assessed by pAE(+)/all the autoimmune encephalitis cases
^bsensitivity of definite autoimmune limbic encephalitis assessed by dALE(+)/all the limbic encephalitis cases
^csensitivity of probable anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis assessed by prNMDARE(+)/all the anti-NMDAR encephalitis cases

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