Sakellariou Grigorios T, Kefala Nicoleta
Department of Rheumatology, 424 General Military Hospital, 564 03 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Case Rep Rheumatol. 2013;2013:840984. doi: 10.1155/2013/840984. Epub 2013 Aug 6.
Central nervous involvement, mainly with symptoms of cranial neuropathies, occurs in 2-8% of patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). Meningeal involvement, with persistent and severe headache as main manifestation and abnormal thickening and enhancement of the dural mater on postcontrast magnetic resonance imaging, is extremely rare. We present a case of pachymeningitis due to limited GPA, providing simultaneously a literature review.
中枢神经系统受累主要表现为颅神经病变症状,在显微镜下多血管炎(GPA)患者中发生率为2% - 8%。脑膜受累以持续性严重头痛为主要表现,在增强磁共振成像上表现为硬脑膜异常增厚和强化,极为罕见。我们报告一例局限性GPA所致的硬脑膜炎病例,并同时进行文献复习。