Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?

A 61 year old man with facial diplegia, quadruparesis, tongue atrophy/fasciculations, bulbar speech, muscle weakness/wasting, hypotonia, tremor, dysdiadochokinesia, absent tendon reflexes, fasciculations, and gynecomastia, received immunoglobulins for suspected immune‐neuropathy with limited benefit...

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Autores principales: Poustka, Katharina, Pollanz‐Petrovic, Sabine, Lindeck‐Pozza, Elisabeth, Finsterer, Josef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2899
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author Poustka, Katharina
Pollanz‐Petrovic, Sabine
Lindeck‐Pozza, Elisabeth
Finsterer, Josef
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description A 61 year old man with facial diplegia, quadruparesis, tongue atrophy/fasciculations, bulbar speech, muscle weakness/wasting, hypotonia, tremor, dysdiadochokinesia, absent tendon reflexes, fasciculations, and gynecomastia, received immunoglobulins for suspected immune‐neuropathy with limited benefit. After reconsideration, Kennedy disease was diagnosed upon 44 CAG repeats in AR. In conclusion, immunoglobulins exhibit limited benefit on immune‐neuropathy in patients with coexisting KD.
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spelling pubmed-73641002020-07-20 Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins? Poustka, Katharina Pollanz‐Petrovic, Sabine Lindeck‐Pozza, Elisabeth Finsterer, Josef Clin Case Rep Case Reports A 61 year old man with facial diplegia, quadruparesis, tongue atrophy/fasciculations, bulbar speech, muscle weakness/wasting, hypotonia, tremor, dysdiadochokinesia, absent tendon reflexes, fasciculations, and gynecomastia, received immunoglobulins for suspected immune‐neuropathy with limited benefit. After reconsideration, Kennedy disease was diagnosed upon 44 CAG repeats in AR. In conclusion, immunoglobulins exhibit limited benefit on immune‐neuropathy in patients with coexisting KD. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7364100/ /pubmed/32695362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2899 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title_full Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?
title_fullStr Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?
title_full_unstemmed Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?
title_short Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?
title_sort bulbospinal muscular atrophy (kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins?
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2899
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