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Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report
This is a case report concerning a Natalizumab-associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) with cerebellar localization and wakefulness disturbances. Awakening and clinical improvement dramatically occurred as soon as the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) took place,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9653865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36362428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232113642 |
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author | De Masi, Roberto Orlando, Stefania Armenise, Silvia Spagnolo, Pantaleo Capra, Ruggero Costa, Maria Carmela |
author_facet | De Masi, Roberto Orlando, Stefania Armenise, Silvia Spagnolo, Pantaleo Capra, Ruggero Costa, Maria Carmela |
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description | This is a case report concerning a Natalizumab-associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) with cerebellar localization and wakefulness disturbances. Awakening and clinical improvement dramatically occurred as soon as the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) took place, being it mild in nature and colocalizing with the PML lesion. In these ideal experimental conditions, we applied brain magnetic resonance imaging post-analysis in order to know changes in brain volumes underlying the pathological process over the infection period. White matter volume increased with a decrease in grey matter during IRIS. Conversely, we found a constant increase in cerebrospinal fluid volume throughout the duration of PML, suggesting a widespread abiotrophic effect, far from the lesion. Furthermore, brain parenchymal fraction significantly decreased as expected while the total brain volume remained stable at all times. Neurodegeneration is the main contributor to the steady disability in Natalizumab-associated PML. This process is thought to be widespread and inflammatory in nature as well as sustained by IRIS and humoral factors derived from the PML lesion. |
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spelling | pubmed-96538652022-11-15 Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report De Masi, Roberto Orlando, Stefania Armenise, Silvia Spagnolo, Pantaleo Capra, Ruggero Costa, Maria Carmela Int J Mol Sci Case Report This is a case report concerning a Natalizumab-associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) with cerebellar localization and wakefulness disturbances. Awakening and clinical improvement dramatically occurred as soon as the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) took place, being it mild in nature and colocalizing with the PML lesion. In these ideal experimental conditions, we applied brain magnetic resonance imaging post-analysis in order to know changes in brain volumes underlying the pathological process over the infection period. White matter volume increased with a decrease in grey matter during IRIS. Conversely, we found a constant increase in cerebrospinal fluid volume throughout the duration of PML, suggesting a widespread abiotrophic effect, far from the lesion. Furthermore, brain parenchymal fraction significantly decreased as expected while the total brain volume remained stable at all times. Neurodegeneration is the main contributor to the steady disability in Natalizumab-associated PML. This process is thought to be widespread and inflammatory in nature as well as sustained by IRIS and humoral factors derived from the PML lesion. MDPI 2022-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9653865/ /pubmed/36362428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232113642 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report De Masi, Roberto Orlando, Stefania Armenise, Silvia Spagnolo, Pantaleo Capra, Ruggero Costa, Maria Carmela Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report |
title | Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report |
title_full | Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report |
title_fullStr | Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report |
title_short | Changes in Brain Volumes Are Relevant during Natalizumab-Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Lessons from a Case Report |
title_sort | changes in brain volumes are relevant during natalizumab-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: lessons from a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9653865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36362428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232113642 |
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