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Editors' note: Clinical Reasoning: A 56-year-old woman with acute vertigo and diplopia

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In “Clinical Reasoning: A 56-year-old woman with acute vertigo and diplopia,” Sharma et al. presented the case of a patient with a pontine infarct attributed to varicella-zoster virus reactivation in… Click to show full abstract

In “Clinical Reasoning: A 56-year-old woman with acute vertigo and diplopia,” Sharma et al. presented the case of a patient with a pontine infarct attributed to varicella-zoster virus reactivation in the setting of immunosuppression by bortezomib for treatment of light-chain amyloidosis. In response, Dr. Ambrose reminds neurologists that bortezomib, which is increasingly being used for antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases, including NMDAR encephalitis, can cause a pan-immunodeficiency.

Keywords: reasoning year; old woman; year old; acute vertigo; woman acute; clinical reasoning

Journal Title: Neurology
Year Published: 2019

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