A: Someone with consistently high protein in the urine may have kidney disease, but other causes could include a buildup of abnormal proteins in the organs called amyloidosis, diabetes, hypertension, Hodgkin's disease or sickle cell anemia, states Mayo Clinic. High protein may also result from leukemia, lupus, heart disease or pregnancy.
The circumstances of inpatient admission always govern the selection of principal diagnosis. The principal diagnosis is defined in the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) as âthat condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care.â.
To accomplish this goal, the PANDAS criteria were modified to describe PANS â Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome. PANS encompasses the whole group of acute-onset cases of OCD while PANDAS describes those cases of PANS that have a documented association with streptococcal infections.PANS and PANDAS are comparable to cancer and leukemia (respectively) as PANS is the large class of disorders and PANDAS is one specific type.he term is used to describe a subset of children and adolescents who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and/or tic disorders, and in whom symptoms worsen following strep. infections such as Strep throat and Scarlet Fever. PANS is a newer term used to describe the larger class of acute-onset OCD cases.