Akanuma Haruna, Kadowaki Suguru, Kanai Kazuaki
Department of Neurology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan.
Department of Neurology, Ohta General Hospital Foundation, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Kōriyama, Japan.
Front Neurol. 2024 Feb 9;15:1340694. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1340694. eCollection 2024.
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is an X-linked recessive motor neuron disease caused by the expansion of cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeats in the androgen receptor (AR) gene. It is thought that the nuclear translocation of abnormal AR proteins following binding to testosterone triggers the onset of the disease. We report the case of a patient who had SBMA coincident with Klinefelter syndrome. He developed SBMA symptoms rapidly after receiving androgen replacement therapy for Klinefelter syndrome. No cases of coincident SBMA and Klinefelter syndrome have been reported, and if confirmed by further patients in future, that androgen hormones are strongly associated with the development and progression of SBMA in fact in humans.
脊髓延髓性肌萎缩症(SBMA)是一种X连锁隐性运动神经元疾病,由雄激素受体(AR)基因中胞嘧啶-腺嘌呤-鸟嘌呤(CAG)重复序列的扩增引起。据认为,异常AR蛋白与睾酮结合后发生核转位会引发该病。我们报告了一例患有SBMA且合并克兰费尔特综合征的患者。他在接受克兰费尔特综合征的雄激素替代治疗后迅速出现了SBMA症状。此前尚未有SBMA与克兰费尔特综合征合并的病例报告,如果未来有更多患者得到证实,那么事实上雄激素与人类SBMA的发生和进展密切相关。