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Maillet F, Pineton De Chambrun M, Monzani Q, Mercy G, Schuffenecker I, Mirand A, Deback C, Charlotte F, Fourniols E, Mathian A, Amoura Z. [Enteroviral infections in adults treated with rituximab: A new case of chronic meningitis and myofasciitis and literature review]. Rev Med Interne 2020; 41:200-205. [PMID: 31980187 DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2019.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 12/07/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Chronic enterovirus infections can occur in primary immunodeficiency with hypogammaglobulinemia. They usually associate meningitis and myofasciitis. Such infections have also been described in adults with rituximab-induced hypogammaglobulinemia. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 33-year-old woman who was given rituximab for immune thrombocytopenia and developed rituximab-induced hypogammaglobulinemia (IgG 4.4g/L). One year after the last rituximab infusion, she developed lower limbs myofasciitis, followed two months later by a chronic lymphocytic meningitis. PCR in the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid at the time of the meningitis and the myofasciitis were positive to the same enterovirus (echovirus 11) while it was negative in the fascia biopsy. Under treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins, all symptoms and laboratory abnormalities improved and enterovirus PCR became negative. CONCLUSION We report a case of chronic enterovirus infection associating meningitis and myofasciitis in an adult with rituximab-induced hypogammaglobulinemia. Outcome was favorable under treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins.
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- F Maillet
- Service de médecine interne 2, institut E3M, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Service de médecine interne 2, institut E3M, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France; Service de médecine intensive-réanimation, institut de cardiologie, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France.
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- Service de radiologie polyvalente et oncologique, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Service de radiologie polyvalente et oncologique, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de virologie, centre national de référence des entérovirus, hospices civils de Lyon, 103, Grande-Rue-de-la-Croix-Rousse, 69004 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de virologie, centre national de référence des entérovirus, CHRU de Clermont-Ferrand, 58, rue Montalembert, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Service de virologie, université Paris Sud, hôpital Paul Brousse, AP-HP, 12, avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, 94800 Villejuif, France
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- Service d'anatomopathologie, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Service de chirurgie orthopédique, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Service de médecine interne 2, institut E3M, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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- Service de médecine interne 2, institut E3M, Sorbonne université, hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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Gherardi RK, Aouizerate J, Cadusseau J, Yara S, Authier FJ. Aluminum adjuvants of vaccines injected into the muscle: Normal fate, pathology and associated disease. Morphologie 2016; 100:85-94. [PMID: 26948677 DOI: 10.1016/j.morpho.2016.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2015] [Revised: 01/12/2016] [Accepted: 01/16/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Aluminum oxyhydroxide (Alhydrogel(®)) is a nano-crystalline compound forming aggregates that has been introduced in vaccine for its immunologic adjuvant effect in 1926. It is the most commonly used adjuvant in human and veterinary vaccines but mechanisms by which it stimulates immune responses remain ill-defined. Although generally well tolerated on the short term, it has been suspected to occasionally cause delayed neurologic problems in susceptible individuals. In particular, the long-term persistence of aluminic granuloma also termed macrophagic myofasciitis is associated with chronic arthromyalgias and fatigue and cognitive dysfunction. Safety concerns largely depend on the long biopersistence time inherent to this adjuvant, which may be related to its quick withdrawal from the interstitial fluid by avid cellular uptake; and the capacity of adjuvant particles to migrate and slowly accumulate in lymphoid organs and the brain, a phenomenon documented in animal models and resulting from MCP1/CCL2-dependant translocation of adjuvant-loaded monocyte-lineage cells (Trojan horse phenomenon). These novel insights strongly suggest that serious re-evaluation of long-term aluminum adjuvant phamacokinetics and safety should be carried out.
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- R K Gherardi
- Garches-Necker-Mondor-Hendaye Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, 94000 Créteil, France; Expert Centre for Neuromuscular Pathology, Henri-Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000 Créteil, France; Inserm U955-Team 10 "Biology of Neuromuscular System" Paris Est-Créteil University, Créteil, France
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- Garches-Necker-Mondor-Hendaye Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, 94000 Créteil, France; Expert Centre for Neuromuscular Pathology, Henri-Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000 Créteil, France; Inserm U955-Team 10 "Biology of Neuromuscular System" Paris Est-Créteil University, Créteil, France
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- Garches-Necker-Mondor-Hendaye Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, 94000 Créteil, France; Inserm U955-Team 10 "Biology of Neuromuscular System" Paris Est-Créteil University, Créteil, France
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- Garches-Necker-Mondor-Hendaye Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, 94000 Créteil, France; Inserm U955-Team 10 "Biology of Neuromuscular System" Paris Est-Créteil University, Créteil, France
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- Garches-Necker-Mondor-Hendaye Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, 94000 Créteil, France; Expert Centre for Neuromuscular Pathology, Henri-Mondor Hospital, AP-HP, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000 Créteil, France; Inserm U955-Team 10 "Biology of Neuromuscular System" Paris Est-Créteil University, Créteil, France.
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Healy EG, Phadke R, Kidd M, Reilly MM, Lunn MP. Clinical, neuropathological and radiological evidence for a rare complication of rituximab therapy. Neuromuscul Disord 2015; 25:589-92. [PMID: 25958339 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2015.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Revised: 04/05/2015] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
We report a rare case of myofasciitis and meningitis with deafness caused by systemic enterovirus infection in the setting of hypogammaglobulinaemia induced by rituximab. Whilst effective and generally safe, anti- CD 20 antibody therapy is increasingly recognised to result in unusual infectious complications to be considered in a treated patient presenting with neurological symptoms. These cases may pose diagnostic difficulties and can have atypical presentations. We present this rare complication of rituximab therapy, with histopathological confirmation of myofasciitis. In the older literature, enterovirus associated myofasciitis may have erroneously been termed dermatomyositis and we review the literature to demonstrate this important nosological point.
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- E G Healy
- Department of Molecular Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Neurology, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, London, UK
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- Division of Neuropathology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Department of Virology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Molecular Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Neurology, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, London, UK; Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Department of Molecular Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Neurology, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, London, UK; Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.
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