• Internal medicine · Dec 2024

    Co-occurrence of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Successfully Treated with Tocilizumab: A Case Report.

    • Takuma Tsuzuki Wada, Kazuhiro Yokota, Mariko Okada, Takaya Ichimura, Takehito Ueno, Nobuhito Okumura, Iichiro Osawa, Kaiji Inoue, Yuji Akiyama, Yoshihiko Nakazato, Atsushi Sasaki, Toshimasa Yamamoto, and Toshihide Mimura.
    • Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2024 Dec 26.

    AbstractWe herein report a 52-year-old woman with anti-aquaporin 4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) who was successfully treated with tocilizumab, a humanized anti-human interleukin (IL)-6 receptor monoclonal antibody. This is the first report of a case of coexisting NMOSD and iMCD. IL-6 is involved in the pathogenesis of both NMOSD and iMCD, and tocilizumab is effective against both diseases. By treating the patient with tocilizumab, the lung lesions due to iMCD improved, and the neurological symptoms of NMOSD did not recur.

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