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Moyamoya Disease-like Cerebrovascular Stenotic Lesions Are an Important Phenotype of POEMS Syndrome-associated Vasculopathy.


ABSTRACT: A 41-year-old woman was diagnosed with polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome based on polyneuropathy, hepatosplenomegaly, sclerotic bone lesions, IgA-λ M-protein, and an elevated level of serum vascular endothelial growth factor. One month after the initiation of lenalidomide-dexamethasone with prophylactic aspirin, she developed facial paralysis, dysarthria, and left hemiplegia. Multiple cerebral infarctions and internal carotid artery stenosis were detected. Five months after switching to pomalidomide-dexamethasone, she again developed cerebral infarction. Progressed stenotic lesions in the bilateral internal carotid artery terminal portions were detected, showing a moyamoya disease-like appearance. Quasi-moyamoya disease can be an important phenotype of systemic vasculopathies of POEMS syndrome.

SUBMITTER: Takahashi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9177367 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Moyamoya Disease-like Cerebrovascular Stenotic Lesions Are an Important Phenotype of POEMS Syndrome-associated Vasculopathy.

Takahashi Yusuke Y   Mochizuki Yusuke Y   Nakamura Katsuya K   Katoh Nagaaki N   Sekijima Yoshiki Y  

Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 20211106 10


A 41-year-old woman was diagnosed with polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome based on polyneuropathy, hepatosplenomegaly, sclerotic bone lesions, IgA-λ M-protein, and an elevated level of serum vascular endothelial growth factor. One month after the initiation of lenalidomide-dexamethasone with prophylactic aspirin, she developed facial paralysis, dysarthria, and left hemiplegia. Multiple cerebral infarctions and internal carotid artery stenos  ...[more]

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