Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy disease) responsive to immunoglobulins? 2020

Katharina Poustka, and Sabine Pollanz-Petrovic, and Elisabeth Lindeck-Pozza, and Josef Finsterer
Department of Neurology Kaiser Franz Josef Spital Vienna Austria.

A 61 year old man with facial diplegia, quadruparesis, tongue atrophy/fasciculations, bulbar speech, muscle weakness/wasting, hypotonia, tremor, dysdiadochokinesia, absent tendon reflexes, fasciculations, and gynecomastia, received immunoglobulins for suspected immune-neuropathy with limited benefit. After reconsideration, Kennedy disease was diagnosed upon 44 CAG repeats in AR. In conclusion, immunoglobulins exhibit limited benefit on immune-neuropathy in patients with coexisting KD.

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