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Interrogating Individual Autoreactive Germinal Centers by Photoactivation in a Mixed Chimeric Model of Autoimmunity
Published on: April 11, 2019
MOG autoimmunity mimicking CLIPPERS syndrome: Case report and literature review
Michela Ada Noris Ferilli1, Claudia Papi2, Mario Sabatelli3
1Neuroscience Department, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy; Neurology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) is an inflammatory syndrome characterized by the predominant involvement of the pons, the cerebellum and the spinal cord with a distinct corticosteroid responsiveness. To date, several cases of neurological disorders with a CLIPPERS-like phenotype have been described, including patients with Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies binding to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG). We herein report the case of a man with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for probable CLIPPERS and a literature review of CLIPPERS-mimicking patients with MOG-IgG.

