Rhabdomyolysis and paraneoplastic stiff-man syndrome with amphiphysin autoimmunity
Stiff‐Man syndrome (SMS) is a rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by chronic muscle rigidity and autoimmunity directed against synaptic antigens. In a subset of patients, generally positive for antiamphiphysin autoantibodies, SMS has an autoimmune paraneoplastic origin. Amphiphy...
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Published in | Annals of neurology Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 286 - 290 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Hoboken
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
01.02.2004
Willey-Liss |
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Summary: | Stiff‐Man syndrome (SMS) is a rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by chronic muscle rigidity and autoimmunity directed against synaptic antigens. In a subset of patients, generally positive for antiamphiphysin autoantibodies, SMS has an autoimmune paraneoplastic origin. Amphiphysin isoforms are expressed at high levels in brain and skeletal muscle and often are overexpressed in breast cancer. We report here the occurrence of rhabdomyolysis in a patient with SMS, breast cancer, and antibodies that recognize both brain and muscle amphiphysin isoforms. Immunotherapy induced a remission of both rhabdomyolysis and SMS symptoms. Autoimmune rhabdomyolysis may represent a paraneoplastic complication of cancer patients with amphiphysin autoimmunity. |
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Bibliography: | National Institutes of Health - No. CA46128 ArticleID:ANA10841 United States Army Medical Research and Development Command - No. DAMD17-01-1-0670 ark:/67375/WNG-5MFHC7VL-R Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) - No. SFB 507-A1; No. LA1348/2 istex:F86F742CA9F2F41110ACA7D2E3C87C4C08DFAFA6 ObjectType-Case Study-3 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-4 content type line 23 ObjectType-Report-2 |
ISSN: | 0364-5134 1531-8249 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ana.10841 |