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A Case of Stiff Person Syndrome: Immunomodulatory Effect of Benzodiazepines:
Successful Rituximab and Tizanidine Therapy
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Zdziarski P
Medicine (Baltimore)
2015[Jun]; 94
(23
): e954
PMID26061327
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Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a rare autoimmune disease. Most patients have
high-titer antibodies against glutamate decarboxylase (GADAb), which is without
practical value in disease monitoring. Benzodiazepines are the first line drugs,
but long-term use is not well characterized. This report demonstrates ineffective
benzodiazepine therapy of SPS that prompts tachyphylaxis, loss of responsiveness,
and finally benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome. Convulsion and anxiety correlate
with high level of creatine phosphokinase (CK). Although tonus and spasm attacks
were successfully controlled by tizanidine, glutamate release inhibitor, the
immune response, and autoimmune diabetes development require the plasmapheresis,
mycophenolat mofetil, and rituximab therapy that results in a significant
decrease of GADAb, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH),
and CK normalization. Unfortunately, reintroduction of benzodiazepine was a
source of rapid and high increase of CK, LDH, GADAb titer (up to 1:15,000), IGT,
and SPS relapse. Contrary to previous publications, we observed IGT that
correlated with high anti-GAD level, but without high immunogenetic
susceptibility to haplotype human leukocyte antigens-DR3, DQw2. This preliminary
observation and the last finding of immunomodulatory properties of peripheral
benzodiazepine receptor suggest that increased antigenic stimulation during
benzodiazepine therapy and glutamatergic hyperactivity could account for
convulsions observed in SPS. Benzodiazepine withdrawal prompted alternative
muscle relaxant therapy (tizanidine). Muscular and brain abnormalities observed
in SPS indicate that noncardiac CK level may be a useful tool in SPS therapy
monitoring.
|Adult
[MESH]
|Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived/*therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Benzodiazepines/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Clonidine/*analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Diazepam/therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Drug Therapy, Combination
[MESH]
|Female
[MESH]
|Glutamate Decarboxylase
[MESH]
|Humans
[MESH]
|Immunologic Factors/*therapeutic use
[MESH]
|Muscle Relaxants, Central/*therapeutic use
[MESH]