Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is an uncommon immune-related disease with unknown causes. It is characterized by inflammation of cartilaginous or non-cartilaginous structures, such as the ears, nose, respiratory tract, eyes, and joints. Neurological involvement is rare in RP. CASE PRESENT...

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Autores principales: Cao, Jie, Zhang, Min
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5921442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29699514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-018-1059-7
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description BACKGROUND: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is an uncommon immune-related disease with unknown causes. It is characterized by inflammation of cartilaginous or non-cartilaginous structures, such as the ears, nose, respiratory tract, eyes, and joints. Neurological involvement is rare in RP. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of pleocytosis in a 64-year-old man diagnosed as having RP with meningoencephalitis. The patient’s condition markedly improved following methylprednisolone treatment. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first report of recurrent pleocytosis in a patient with RP accompanied by meningoencephalitis. Steroid pulse therapy is effective in most cases, and early diagnosis is of importance.
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spelling pubmed-59214422018-05-01 Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report Cao, Jie Zhang, Min BMC Neurol Case Report BACKGROUND: Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is an uncommon immune-related disease with unknown causes. It is characterized by inflammation of cartilaginous or non-cartilaginous structures, such as the ears, nose, respiratory tract, eyes, and joints. Neurological involvement is rare in RP. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of pleocytosis in a 64-year-old man diagnosed as having RP with meningoencephalitis. The patient’s condition markedly improved following methylprednisolone treatment. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first report of recurrent pleocytosis in a patient with RP accompanied by meningoencephalitis. Steroid pulse therapy is effective in most cases, and early diagnosis is of importance. BioMed Central 2018-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5921442/ /pubmed/29699514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-018-1059-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report
title_fullStr Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report
title_short Pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report
title_sort pleocytosis in a patient with relapsing polychondritis accompanied by meningoencephalitis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5921442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29699514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-018-1059-7
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