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MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()

Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy (GFAP-A) is a new type of autoimmune astrocytopathy first defined in 2016. Lack of clinical understanding, often misdiagnosed as optic neuromyelitis or multiple sclerosis. We report the clinical and MRI findings of an elderly patient with aut...

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Autores principales: Ma, Wenhui, Huang, Cong, Yang, Lu, Luo, Junde
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35601378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.04.032
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description Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy (GFAP-A) is a new type of autoimmune astrocytopathy first defined in 2016. Lack of clinical understanding, often misdiagnosed as optic neuromyelitis or multiple sclerosis. We report the clinical and MRI findings of an elderly patient with autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy. With intractable vomiting as the first symptom, the brainstem showed typical vascular enhancement. GFAP-A lacks specificity in clinical and MRI scans. When enhancement reveals paraventricular “vascular-like enhancement” or central spinal cord tubular enhancement, it is important to consider the possibility of this disease.
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spelling pubmed-91141572022-05-19 MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report() Ma, Wenhui Huang, Cong Yang, Lu Luo, Junde Radiol Case Rep Case Report Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy (GFAP-A) is a new type of autoimmune astrocytopathy first defined in 2016. Lack of clinical understanding, often misdiagnosed as optic neuromyelitis or multiple sclerosis. We report the clinical and MRI findings of an elderly patient with autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy. With intractable vomiting as the first symptom, the brainstem showed typical vascular enhancement. GFAP-A lacks specificity in clinical and MRI scans. When enhancement reveals paraventricular “vascular-like enhancement” or central spinal cord tubular enhancement, it is important to consider the possibility of this disease. Elsevier 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9114157/ /pubmed/35601378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.04.032 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()
title MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()
title_full MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()
title_fullStr MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()
title_full_unstemmed MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()
title_short MRI findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: Case report()
title_sort mri findings of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy involving infratentorial: case report()
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35601378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.04.032
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