{"title":"A Case of HLA-B27-associated optic neuritis","authors":"Matar Alexandre , Ibrikji Sidonie , Bou Ghannam Alaa","doi":"10.1016/j.nerep.2022.100155","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We report the case of a young woman who presented with chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuritis (CRION) in association with HLA-B27 and silent brain lesions. The attacks were refractory to steroids but no further attacks occurred on treatment with mycophenolate mofetil. This is one of the few HLA-B27-associated optic neuritis cases reported in the literature, emphasizing the relation of HLA-B27 and inflammation of the brain and optic nerve, as well as the role mycophenolate mofetil might offer in stabilizing the disease.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100950,"journal":{"name":"Neuroimmunology Reports","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Neuroimmunology Reports","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667257X22001012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We report the case of a young woman who presented with chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuritis (CRION) in association with HLA-B27 and silent brain lesions. The attacks were refractory to steroids but no further attacks occurred on treatment with mycophenolate mofetil. This is one of the few HLA-B27-associated optic neuritis cases reported in the literature, emphasizing the relation of HLA-B27 and inflammation of the brain and optic nerve, as well as the role mycophenolate mofetil might offer in stabilizing the disease.