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ArticleBMJ case reports2018

Hypertrophic pachymeningoencephalitis associated with temporal giant cell arteritis.

Gesine Boisch, Sven Duda, Christian Hartmann, Heinrich Weßling

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gesine BoischDepartment of Neurology, Ammerland Klinik GmbH, Westerstede, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3903-7033
Sven DudaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Westerstede, Westerstede, Germany.
Christian HartmannDepartment of Neuropathology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Heinrich WeßlingDepartment of Neurosurgery, Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Westerstede, Westerstede, Germany.
Bundeswehrkrankenhaus · DEMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEVogtland-Klinik · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the rare case of an 80-year-old male patient with hypertrophic pachymeningoencephalitis that may be associated with temporal arteritis. The patient presented to our neurological department with a 2-week history of latent paresis and ataxia affecting his right hand. He had been diagnosed with temporal arteritis 12 years earlier. Brain MRI showed an enhancement of the left-sided frontoparietal meninges with oedema of the adjacent tissue of the precentral and postcentral cortex. A leptomeningeal biopsy was performed. An autoimmune-mediated immunoglobulin G4-associated hypertrophic pachymeningoencephalitis was diagnosed. The patient received a high-dose corticosteroid therapy and his symptoms gradually improved. Our results suggest that hypertrophic pachymeningoencephalitis may occur as a complication of giant cell arteritis and may cause central neurological deficits by cerebral perifocal oedema.

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Aged, 80 and overAntirheumatic AgentsAzathioprineCraniotomyDiagnosis, DifferentialDura MaterGiant Cell ArteritisGlucocorticoidsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMeningoencephalitisMethylprednisoloneTemporal ArteriesTomography, X-Ray ComputedAntirheumatic AgentsAzathioprineGlucocorticoidsMethylprednisolonecerebral palsyneurosurgerypathologyvasculitis

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PMID30262524
PMCPMC6169653
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