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- Title
Anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic sensory neuronopathy responding to early aggressive immunotherapy: Report of two cases and review of literature.
- Authors
Oh, Shin J.; Dropcho, Edward J.; Claussen, Gwen C.
- Abstract
Anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy (PSN) has been reported to be nonresponsive to immunotherapy or cancer therapy. We report 2 patients with anti-Hu-associated PSN who achieved sustained clinical improvement with early and aggressive immunotherapy 10-15 months before the diagnosis of small-cell lung carcinoma. Both had chronic 'sensory neuronopathy plus'; in addition to sensory neuronopathy, case 1 had a motor-autonomic dysfunction with encephalopathy, and case 2 had a motor-autonomic dysfunction with swallowing difficulty. These two cases were unusual in that sustained clinical improvement was achieved with early aggressive immunotherapy before the detection of cancer and without any concomitant anticancer therapy or lowering of anti-Hu antibody titer. We believe that early and aggressive immunotherapy should be tried in any patient with anti-Hu-associated PSN, as it may induce sustained clinical improvement. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Muscle Nerve 20: 1576-1582, 1997
- Publication
Muscle & Nerve, 1997, Vol 20, Issue 12, p1576
- ISSN
0148-639X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199712)20:12<1576::AID-MUS13>3.0.CO;2-Z