A Case of Multiple Cerebral Infarction Associated with Cerebral Vasculitis in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis.

A Case of Multiple Cerebral Infarction Associated with Cerebral Vasculitis in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis. Intern Med. 2020 Aug 22;: Authors: Yasuda T, Takagi T, Hasegawa D, Hirose R, Inoue K, Dohi O, Yoshida N, Kamada K, Uchiyama K, Ishikawa T, Konishi H, Naito Y, Itoh Y Abstract A 40-year-old man was admitted to the hospital due to both a worsening of symptoms associated with ulcerative colitis (UC), which had been diagnosed 3 years previously, and limb paralysis. Colonoscopy revealed severe pancolitis-type UC. He was diagnosed with cerebral vasculitis with multiple white matter infarctions associated with the disease activity of UC by contrast-enhanced head magnetic resonance imaging. Mesalazine at 4,000 mg/day and prednisolone at 60 mg/day were started, and the prednisolone dosage was thereafter gradually reduced and switched to golimumab. He achieved a long-term remission from UC, and thereafter his neurological abnormalities improved significantly. He had no recurrence of cerebral infarction. PMID: 32830176 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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