A Case of Possible IgG4-Related Disease with Bilateral Optic Neuropathy and Bilateral Hippocampal Bleed

Neurol India. 2021 Mar-Apr;69(2):484-486. doi: 10.4103/0028-3886.314517.

Abstract

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a multisystem inflammatory disorder. The diagnosis requires consideration of clinical, radiographic, serological, and pathological evidence. Neurological involvement by IgG4-RD is relatively uncommon and is being increasingly recognized and reported with hypertrophic pachymeningitis and hypophysitis as the most frequent manifestations. IgG4-related involvement of brain parenchyma is rare, but isolated case reports exist. Here, we report a case of a young boy who presented to us with bilateral optic neuropathy and bilateral hippocampal bleed-related neurological involvement in a possible IgG4-RD, a rare entity.

Keywords: IgG4-related disease; hippocampal bleed; optic neuropathy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Hippocampus / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease* / complications
  • Male
  • Meningitis*
  • Optic Nerve
  • Optic Nerve Diseases* / etiology