PMID- 28757876
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1687-9627 (Print)
IS  - 1687-9635 (Electronic)
VI  - 2017
DP  - 2017
TI  - A Case of Atopic Myelitis with Cervical Cavernous Angioma.
PG  - 9506275
LID - 10.1155/2017/9506275 [doi]
LID - 9506275
AB  - Atopic myelitis, a type of myelitis which appears in patients with elevated serum 
      levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), occurs more commonly in the cervical spinal 
      cord, but this mechanism has not yet been elucidated. Herein, we experienced a 
      case of atopic myelitis developed during the growth of cervical cavernous angioma 
      caused by bleeding. A 37-year-old woman suffered from hand swelling caused by a 
      house cat licking. At the same time when cavernous angioma had grown, she 
      experienced a numbness in her four extremities, and multifocal peritumoral 
      hyperintense spinal cord signals were seen. The diagnosis of atopic myelitis was 
      made because we observed significantly elevated levels of specific IgE antibody 
      to cat dander. Symptoms disappeared immediately after steroid pulse therapy. We 
      subsequently resected a cavernous angioma, and eosinophil invasion was found 
      inside it. This is the first case report of atopic myelitis which developed in 
      association with spinal cord vascular lesions. A local blood-brain barrier 
      breakdown due to hemorrhagic lesions of the spinal cord may have contributed to 
      the onset of atopic myelitis.
FAU - Fukuda, Miyuki
AU  - Fukuda M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2849-2700
AD  - Shin-Aikai Spine Center, Katano Hospital, Matsuzuka 39-1, Katano City, Osaka 
      576-0043, Japan.
FAU - Manabe, Hiroaki
AU  - Manabe H
AD  - Shin-Aikai Spine Center, Katano Hospital, Matsuzuka 39-1, Katano City, Osaka 
      576-0043, Japan.
FAU - Sasaki, Nobuhiro
AU  - Sasaki N
AD  - Shin-Aikai Spine Center, Katano Hospital, Matsuzuka 39-1, Katano City, Osaka 
      576-0043, Japan.
FAU - Kuroda, Masayuki
AU  - Kuroda M
AD  - Shin-Aikai Spine Center, Katano Hospital, Matsuzuka 39-1, Katano City, Osaka 
      576-0043, Japan.
FAU - Hoshimaru, Minoru
AU  - Hoshimaru M
AD  - Shin-Aikai Spine Center, Katano Hospital, Matsuzuka 39-1, Katano City, Osaka 
      576-0043, Japan.
FAU - Ueda, Shigeo
AU  - Ueda S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4037-1247
AD  - Shin-Aikai Spine Center, Katano Hospital, Matsuzuka 39-1, Katano City, Osaka 
      576-0043, Japan.
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
DEP - 20170703
PL  - United States
TA  - Case Rep Med
JT  - Case reports in medicine
JID - 101512910
PMC - PMC5512020
EDAT- 2017/08/02 06:00
MHDA- 2017/08/02 06:01
PMCR- 2017/07/03
CRDT- 2017/08/01 06:00
PHST- 2017/03/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/06/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/08/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/08/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/08/02 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/07/03 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2017/9506275 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Case Rep Med. 2017;2017:9506275. doi: 10.1155/2017/9506275. Epub 2017 Jul 3.