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Pediatric neuroinflammatory diseases in the intensive care unit
Kristen S Fisher1, Anna Illner2, Varun Kannan3
1Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
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Inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) include a wide spectrum of autoimmune, autoinflammatory, and paraneoplastic diseases. While many affected patients require acute hospital admission, a subset may present with severe neurological symptoms requiring intensive care unit (ICU) escalation due to disordered consciousness, respiratory failure, status epilepticus, intracranial hypertension, and/or severe autonomic dysregulation.

