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Toxic leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids caused by chemotherapeutic drugs other than methotrexate
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dc.contributor.author | Lim, Ka Young | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kim, Seong-Ik | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kim, Hyunhee | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kang, Jeongwan | - |
dc.contributor.author | Park, Jin Woo | - |
dc.contributor.author | Won, Jae Kyung | - |
dc.contributor.author | Shin, Dong-Yeop | - |
dc.contributor.author | Park, Sung-Hye | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-16T10:39:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-16T19:40:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022-08-03 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | BMC Neurology, 22(1):288 | ko_KR |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2377 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02818-8 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/184471 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background
The objective of this report is to share the clinicopathological features of chemotherapy-induced toxic leukoencephalopathy, which is a rare and under-recognized disease, clinically characterized by rapidly progressive cognitive loss that often leads to sudden death. Case presentation A 64-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man, who had both suffered from a rapid deterioration of consciousness, were autopsied under the clinical impressions of either the central nervous system graft versus host disease (CNS-GVHD), infectious encephalitis, or autoimmune encephalitis. Both patients had been treated with multiple chemotherapy regimens, including adriamycin, cytarabine arabinoside, daunorubicin, fludarabine, azacitidine, and allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation to treat hematological malignancies (acute myelogenous leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome). Neuropathological findings at autopsy revealed rarefaction and vacuolar changes of the white matter with axonal spheroids, reactive gliosis, and foamy macrophage infiltration, predominantly in the visual pathways of the occipital and temporal lobes. Damaged axons exhibited immunoreactivity to beta-amyloid, consistent with axonopathy. However, there was no lymphocyte infiltration that suggested CNS-GVHD or any type of encephalitis. Conclusion The neuropathology found in the presented cases had the characteristic features of toxic leukoencephalopathy (chemobrain). Our cases showed that toxic leukoencephalopathy can also be caused by chemotherapy drugs other than methotrexate. | ko_KR |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by a fund (2021-ER1001-01) by the Research of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. The role of the funder is financial support for the operation of the brain bank of Seoul National University Hospital and the operation of the brain donation program for the research. | ko_KR |
dc.language.iso | en | ko_KR |
dc.publisher | BMC | ko_KR |
dc.subject | Autopsy | - |
dc.subject | Chemotherapy | - |
dc.subject | Chemobrain | - |
dc.subject | Leukoencephalopathy | - |
dc.subject | Axonal spheroids | - |
dc.title | Toxic leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids caused by chemotherapeutic drugs other than methotrexate | ko_KR |
dc.type | Article | ko_KR |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12883-022-02818-8 | ko_KR |
dc.citation.journaltitle | BMC Neurology | ko_KR |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | - |
dc.rights.holder | The Author(s) | - |
dc.date.updated | 2022-08-07T03:12:27Z | - |
dc.citation.number | 1 | ko_KR |
dc.citation.startpage | 288 | ko_KR |
dc.citation.volume | 22 | ko_KR |
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