著者

Toshihiro Ide Takeru Kawanami Makoto Eriguchi Hideo Hara

出版者

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.8709-21, (Released:2022-02-08)

参考文献数

23

被引用文献数

21

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We herein report a case of MOG antibody-associated disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection. A 24-year-old woman developed unilateral optic neuritis 3 weeks after contracting COVID-19, followed by intracranial demyelinating lesions and myelitis. Since serum anti-MOG antibody was positive, we diagnosed MOG antibody-associated disease. Immunotherapy with steroids resulted in the rapid improvement of neurological symptoms. This is a suggestive case, as there are no reports of MOG antibody-associated disease with multiple neurological lesions occurring after COVID-19. The response to immunotherapy was favorable. This case suggests that it is important to measure anti-MOG antibodies in patients who develop inflammatory neurological disease after COVID-19.