The epidemic of COVID-19 is mainly manifested by respiratory symptoms caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. Recently, reports of central nervous system diseases caused or aggravated by SARS-CoV-2 infection are also increasing. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to the diagnosis and management of neurological disorders, especially to those diseases which have overlapping clinical and radiologic features with each other. In this study, a 31-year-old female patient had been diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) initially and subsequently developed tumefactive demyelinating lesions (TDLs) following an infection with SARS-CoV-2. After immunotherapy (glucocorticoid pulses), a significant improvement was observed in her both clinical and radiological characteristics. The patient was started on disease-modifying therapy (DMT) with teriflunomide after cessation of oral glucocorticoids. Following two months of DMT treatment, the imaging follow-up revealed that the patient's condition continued to deteriorate. This case was characterized by the transformation of a multiple sclerosis patient (MS) infected with SARS-CoV-2 into TDLs and the ineffectiveness of DMT treatment, which added complexity to its diagnosis and treatment. The case also gave us a hint that SARS-CoV-2 has a potential contributory role in inducing or exacerbating demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system that warrants further investigation.
第一作者机构:[1]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, Peoples Hosp Wenshan Prefecture, Affiliated Hosp, Dept Neurol, Wenshan, Peoples R China
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通讯机构:[5]First Peoples Hosp Yunnan Prov, Dept Resp Med, Kunming 650022, Peoples R China[6]Kunming Univ Sci & Technol, Affiliated Hosp, Kunming, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Hu Jinghan,Huang Leiyun,Qiu Zengyun,et al.Case report: A novel case of COVID-19 triggered tumefactive demyelinating lesions in one multiple sclerosis patient[J].FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE.2023,17:doi:10.3389/fnins.2023.1287480.
APA:
Hu, Jinghan,Huang, Leiyun,Qiu, Zengyun,Liu, Yongzhen,Shen, Kaiming...&Qian, Jing.(2023).Case report: A novel case of COVID-19 triggered tumefactive demyelinating lesions in one multiple sclerosis patient.FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE,17,
MLA:
Hu, Jinghan,et al."Case report: A novel case of COVID-19 triggered tumefactive demyelinating lesions in one multiple sclerosis patient".FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE 17.(2023)