Immune Therapy Neurotoxicity and ADEM-Like Syndromes
Reviews Immune Therapy Neurotoxicity and ADEM-Like Syndromes and highlights the practical decisions that shape diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
Duration
00:02:41
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1.54 MB
Practitioner-Guided Note
Use Immune Therapy Neurotoxicity and ADEM-Like Syndromes to guide the working diagnosis and next step; let the main risk or management issue drive escalation, treatment choice, and follow-up.
Key Takeaways
These serious neurological adverse events occur in approximately 1 to 5% of treated individuals.; They can cause a massive array of neuro-inflammatory syndromes.; Majority of individuals improve quite well once you initiate aggressive immunosuppression, and a solid subset can eventually be tapered off steroids completely.; On the peripheral side, we see severe polyneuropathies, direct acute myositis, myasthenia gravis, and acute polyradiculopathies, while central complications include widespread autoimmune encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, and pituitary hypophysitis.; They typically manifest within the first few months of starting therapy, with peripheral nervous system toxicities showing up far more frequently than central nervous system events.