Department of Hematology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan.
Department of Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Regulation, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan.
Intern Med. 2021 Dec 1;60(23):3795-3799. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.7232-21. Epub 2021 Jun 12.
The primary central nervous system (CNS) presentation of lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LYG) is rare, and no standard therapy for LYG with primary CNS symptoms exists. CNS-LYG patients usually survive for only less than a year from diagnosis. This is the first report of high-grade primary CNS-LYG with monoclonality that was successfully treated with rituximab monotherapy, resulting in a durable remission for more than 1 year in a 66-year-old woman with pemphigus vulgaris who was also on immunosuppressive therapy.
原发性中枢神经系统(CNS)表现的淋巴样肉芽肿病(LYG)较为罕见,且针对原发性 CNS 症状的 LYG 也没有标准的治疗方法。CNS-LYG 患者从诊断到死亡的平均生存时间不足 1 年。这是首例成功应用利妥昔单抗单药治疗的高级别原发性 CNS-LYG 伴单克隆性的报道,一名 66 岁患有寻常型天疱疮且正在接受免疫抑制治疗的女性患者,在接受利妥昔单抗单药治疗后获得了 1 年以上的持久缓解。