CADASIL, Migraine and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) – The Risk of Misdiagnosis, Case Report
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS) have been changing for years to enable easier and faster ways to confirm diagnosis especially during last decade. They lead to earlier treatment of patients with MS what gives higher likelihood to keep patients fit and capable of working. Dissemination in time (DIT) and in space (DIS) are general rules which are necessary to diagnose MS what was maintained in all diagnostic criteria, which have been published up till now[1]. Current criteria were published in 2017 and enable diagnosing MS even in patients, who earlier could not have MS diagnosed. This results from the facts that CSF oligoclonal bands present in patients with DIS without DIT are enough to MS diagnose[2]. Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a disease of small vessels related to gene NOTCH3 mutations leading to symptoms of migraine with aura, recurrent ischemic incidences, cognitive impairment and behavioral disturbance. In this paper we describe patient forty-one years old woman in October of 2012, who was hospitalized in Neurological Ward due to headache, dizziness and numbness of left extremities. Physical examination showed excessive deep reflexes in all extremities and Babinski sign present bilaterally. Computed tomography (CT) revealed multifocal lesions placed subcortically and periventricular. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enabled to visualize numerous hyper intensive lesions in T₂-weighted projection, situated in white mater of both hemispheres, peri ventricularly, corpus callous lobe, semi ovalcentres. There were no lesions subtentorially located or enhancing after contrast injection.After that, cerebrospinal fluid was tested - cytosis 1/μL, protein 20,6 mg/dl, glucose 62,7 mg/dl and oligoclonal bands were absent.Therefore, at that moment, MS diagnose was established. Patient was treated using Solu-Medrol following which health ailments neceded. Two months later, in December of 2012, MRI scan of the cervical spinal cord did not reveal any lesions.After two years, in March of 2014, right-sided paraesthesia appeared with concentration disturbances whereas physical examination revealed excessive deep reflexes. Anti-borrelia antibodies in serum were not revealed. Repeated MRI scan showed similar pictures as before, neither new lesions nor lesions with contrast enhancement, although with the fact, that U-fibers were not attached suggested to consider whether lesions could not have been resulted from congenital or inflammatory arteriopathy. Diagnose of MS was maintained. In December of 2015, her sister was admitted to the hospital due to speech disturbances, paraesthesia of right upper limb and right side of the face lasting fifteen minutes, followed by a headache. Headaches had been returning for a few years once a week, approximately in anamnesis. Additional tests excluded cardiac source of microembolism. The tests into autoaggressive diseases only thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPO) and antithyroglobulin antibody (TG) were present – TPO 595,0 U/ml, TG 112,3U/ml. MRI scan showed no progression in comparison to the MRI from 2012 (Figures 1-3). Sister of patient with MS suspicion had similar symptoms and picture of MRI, however she was diagnosed and treated in a different Medical Centre. Therefore, she was diagnosed as a patient with migraine.Considering medical history, familial anamnesis, clinical course of the disease and results of additional tests advanced suspicion of CADASIL. Thus, patient with sister were directed to Institute Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw to perform myo-cutaneous biopsy. In this test presence of granular osmophilicmaterial (GOM) was confirmed in patient and her sister [3](Figures 4 & 5). It enabled to confirm CADASIL diagnose in both patient and her sister[4]and [5]. Unfortunately, patients did not agree to a genetic test.
Authors and Affiliations
Piotr Bogucki, Paulina Felczak, Teresa Wierzba Bobrowicz, Halina Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, Urszula Fiszer
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