Neuroimunologia Flashcards
Amiloidose gera dano axonal ou desmielinizante
Axonal
Quando STC deve pensar em amiloidose
Bilateral, progressiva, resistente a tratamento, com sintomas em outros órgãos
Manifestações oculares da amiloidose
Floaters, flashes, glaucoma, catarata, olho seco
Manifestações de SNC de amiloidose
Sangramentos, AIT, aura, epilepsia
Como detectar amiloidose
Biópsia de músculo e nervo, PET scan do coração
Amiloidose é acometimento sensitivo, motor ou misto?
Misto
Clínica neuropatia amiloidose
Comprimento dependente, simétrica, progressiva, disautonomia
É comum restrição a difusão e captação de contraste em encefalite autoimune?
Não, melhor pensar em infecção e neoplasia
Hérpes vírus pode ser trigger para encefalite autoimune?
Sim
Devemos testar anti-mog em casos típicos de EM?
Não, muitos podem vir positivos em baixos títulos
Precisa retestar paciente que veio anti-mog negativo na fase aguda sem tratamento?
Não
Quantos meses depois do tratamento poderia tentar testar anti-mog?
3 meses
Precisa tratar MOGAD monofásico?
Não
Principal fator de risco para recorrência de MOGAD?
Ter recorrido uma vez
Tratamento MOGAD
Pulso, IGG, plasmaférese, desmame lento de corticoide em um ano
Manifestações Sjrögen no SNC
Vasculite, AVC, AIT
Achados laboratoriais de Neuro Sjrögen
Eosinofilia e diminuição do nível de IGG
O que pensar quando temos vários anticorpos positivos em baixos títulos?
Reação cruzada
Exame padrão ouro já vasculite
Angiografia
Exames de imagem na vasculite
Vessel wall e angiografia
Limitação exames de imagem na vasculite
Não vê bem pequenos vasos
Anticorpo na Sd de Miller Fisher
Anti gq1b
Alvo inebilizumab
Anti CD 19
Significado CAR-T cell
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell
Tempo de aparecimento médio de complicação autoimune de inibidor de check point
5-15 semanas
Cânceres mais associados a síndromes paraneoplásicas
Mama, linfoma, ginecológico, medular tireoideano, pulmão
Sintomas de cerebelite
Cefaleia, febre, confusão, náusea e ataxia cerebelar
DD cerebelite
Infarto de cerebelo, câncer cerebelar, meningoencefalite infecciosa, ADEM, PRES
Se inchaço de cerebelo na imagem, o que fazer e por que?
Corticoide para evitar inchaço e hérniação
Imagem de cerebelite
Acometimento bilateral e difuso de cerebelo
Mielite na NMO - características
3 ou mais segmentos contíguos intramedulares com lesão ou atrofia
Onde é a lesão da síndrome de área postrema
Dorso da medula
Lesões de tronco da NMO - características
Periependimarias
Lesão do nervo óptico da NMO - características
Mais de 1/2 nervo óptico ou envolvendo quiasma
Definição síndrome da área postrema
Nausea, vômitos e soluços
Red flag do tempo de progressão do surto de NMO
Menos de 4 horas ou mais de 4 semanas para o ápice
Presença de BOC é red flag para NMO?
Sim
Porcentagem de casos monofásicos de NMO
5-10%
O que aumenta o risco de recorrência na NMO?
Soropositividade
Diagnóstico NMO com anticorpo
1 core clinical + excluir outras causas
Diagnóstico de NMO sem anticorpo
2 core clinical, sendo um neurite ou LETM ou síndrome de área postrema
Core clinical da NMO
Neurite óptica, LETM, síndrome de área postrema, síndrome diencefálica ou narcolepsia, síndrome de tronco aguda, síndrome cerebral com lesões típicas
Relação câncer urotelial e síndromes paraneoplasicas
Pouca relação, mas possível em carcinoma urotelial
Qual doença desmielinizante pode ter lesões que desaparecem?
Mogad
O que significa PLAID?
PLCG2 associated antibody deficiency and immune dysregulation
Característica PLAID
Reação alérgica a temperaturas frias
Tolebrutinib class
Oral BTK inhibitor
Autoimmune diseases associated with vasculitis
Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis
Infectious diseases associated with vasculitis
Hepatites B and C
Cancers that can trigger vasculitis
Lymphoma and leukemia
Sneddon Syndrome
Slowly progressive neurocutaneous syndrome with livedo racemosa and recurrent cerebrovascular events
Divry Van Bogaert Syndrome
Familial juvenile-onset disorder with livedo racemosa, white matter disease, dementia, epilepsy and cerebral angiomatosis in angiography (leptomeningial and transdural anastomoses)
Clinical findings in vasculitis
Headache that does not go away
Confusion and forgetfulness (dementia)
Sensibility complaints
Weakness (usually arms and legs)
Pain
Vision problems
Seizures
Problems speaking or understanding
Fever, sick feeling, weight loss, rashes or skin discoloration
Multiple organ damage
Findings in image of vasculitis in Brain
Aneurysms
Thrombosis
Swelling of the brain
Vasculitis investigation
RCP, segmentation rate, auto-antibodies, CSF, biopsy, image, angiogram, USG
Vasculitis treatment
Steroids, azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, rituximab, aneurysms treatment
Giant cell arteitis affects what arteries?
Aorta and its primary branches (temporal artery and ophthalmic artery)
Giant cell arteitis epidemiology?
Age 50 and older
Giant cell arteitis symptoms?
New, severe headache. Blurred, double vision or sudden vision loss. Pain in jaw or tongue. Tendernes in temporal arteries. Fever, weight loss, neck, muscle and joint pain. Fatigue.
Primary angiitis of CNS symptons
slowly progression of headache, dementia, behavioral changes, pain, sensory abnormalities and tremor. Seisures. Multiple AVC, AIT
Primary angiitis of CNS epidemiology
any age, peak at 50, mostly males
Takayasu’s arteritis arteries affected
Aorta
Takayasu’s arteritis epidemiology
women age of 40
Takayasu’s arteritis symptoms
headache, dizziness, cold and numbness in the limbs, visual disturbances, problems with memory . Strokes, heart attacts, intestine damage
Takayasu’s arteritis image
narrowing, blockage or swelling
Polyarteritis nodosa epidemiology
40-60 year, more man
Polyarteritis nodosa symptoms
fever, abdominal pain, numbness or pain in legs and limbs, muscle aches, weakness, weight loss. Kidney failure, HPT. PNS neuropathy is more comom than CNS
Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) is a mutation in what gene?
CECR1 gene
Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) causes what disease?
Vasculitis
Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2) symptons
fever, skin nodules, livedo reticularis, joint pain. Strokes in chielhood
Meaning ICANS?
Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome
% patients with ICANS
20-60% patients
ICANs pathology
release of inflammatory cytokines secreted by macrophages and monocytes, increasing vascular permeability and endothelial activation and leading to blood–brain barrier breakdown
Risk factor for ICANS
high disease burden, older age, and the specific CAR-T product
When does ICAN appear?
5 days, but some in 3 weeks
Symptoms of ICANS
Tremor, confusion, agitation, seizures, cerebral oedema, hesitancy of speach, aphasia, status epilepticus, hemorrhagic
Score for ICANS
Immune Effector Cell Encephalopathy Score (ICE)
ICANS treatment
10-20mg dexamethasone 6/6hrs ou metilprednisolone 1g for at least 4 days
What to do in severe responses of CAR-T cell?
Anakira (IL 1 receptor antagonist) or chemotherapy to kill car t cell
Treatment intracranial hipertension in ICANS
Acetazolamide 1000mg IV + 250-1000 every 12 hours, elevate head bed, hyperventilation, hyperosmolar therapy with manitol
Anti-γ-aminobutyric acid B (GABAB)-receptor encephalitis presentation
Seizures, cognitive impairment, confusion, and personality changes
Anti-γ-aminobutyric acid B (GABAB)-receptor encephalitis is usually associated with what disease?
Small-cell lung cancer
Anti-IgLON5 autoimmune encephalitis presentation
Sleep disorder (parasomnia, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and sleep-disordered breathing), bulbar symptoms, gait abnormalities, recurrent visual and acoustic hallucinations
Gene ALSP
CSF1R (colony-stimulating factor-1 receptor)
Meaning ALSP
Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia
Percentage of ALSP in leukodystrophys
10-25%
ALSP inheritance pattern
Autosomal dominant
Brain CT in ALSP
Multifocal calcifications in white matter
ALSP clinical presentation
Behavioral changes, executive dysfunction, depression, anxiety, psychosis, progressive cognitive decline, gait disturbances, parkinsonism and epilepsy
ALSP typical MR imaging findings
Bilateral patchy, diffuse, or confluent T2 hyperintensities in the white matter. Frontal and parietal lobe predominance, Without enhancement. Subcortical U-fibers are generally spared. DWI persistent hyperintensities are punctate with restricted diffusion or normal intensity on ADC maps.
ALSP MR imaging in pre symptomatic
Asymmetric small-sized nodular hyperintensities
Difference between ALSP and MS
There is no white matter lesion in callososeptal interface in ALSP and no brain calcification in MS
Corpus callosum morphology in ALSP
Thin
DD of ALSP besides MS
Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy due to autosomal recessive mutations in the mitochondrial alanyl-transfer RNA synthetase 2 gene (AARS2-L)
Difference in MRI between ALSP and AARS-L
Marked restricted diffusion on ADC map in AARS2-L; in ALSP, ADC values are similar to or slightly lower than normal white matter
calcifications in the frontal periventricular white matter in ALSP but not in AARS-L
Marchiafava-Bignami disease epidemiology
Chronic alcoholics (with middle-aged to elderly male patients 40-60 years of age
Marchiafava-Bignami disease clinical presentation
Motor or cognitive disturbances, a hemispheric disconnection syndrome (apraxia, hemialexia, dementia) and/or seizures.
Marchiafava-Bignami disease pathology
Deficiency of the vitamin B group results in necrosis and demyelination of the corpus callosum. Some reports present cases of extension into the hemispheric white matter, internal capsule and middle cerebellar peduncle. Although rare, Morel laminar sclerosis can also be seen
Marchiafava-Bignami disease CT changes
Hypoattenuating regions in the corpus callosum
in exceptional situations of hemorrhage, these regions may turn iso- or hyperattenuating
Marchiafava-Bignami disease MRI
Corpus callosum may appear edematous in the acute phase and atrophic in the chronic phase.
T1: hypointense foci in the corpus callosum in the acute phase
T2:
- acute phase: hyperintensities in the corpus callosum
- subacute phase: may show hypointense focal lesions (likely as a result of hemosiderin)
ears of the lynx sign may be seen.
Marchiafava-Bignami disease DD
MS
Diffuse axonal injury if preceding trauma
Callosal infarction: rare due to its rich blood supply
Transient lesions of the splenium of the corpus callosum
Cause of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
Polyomavirus JC (JC virus)
Risk factors for PML
Chronic corticosteroid or immunosuppressive therapy for organ transplant, or individuals with cancer (such as Hodgkin’s disease or lymphoma). Autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. HIV-1 infection.
Treatment of PML
Withdraw the medications causing, can use plasmapheresis to accelerate