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Journal Article
A case of primary optic pathway demyelination caused by oncocytic oligodendrogliopathy of unknown origin
2022
Overview
We report the case of a 22-year-old woman presenting with an acute onset of dizziness, gait dysbalance and blurred vision. Magnetic resonance imaging included 3 Tesla and 7 Tesla imaging and revealed a T2-hyperintense, T1-hypointense, non-contrast-enhancing lesion strictly confined to the white matter affecting the right optic radiation. An extensive ophthalmologic examination yielded mild quadrantanopia but no signs of optic neuropathy. The lesion was biopsied. The neuropathological evaluation revealed a demyelinating lesion with marked tissue vacuolization and granular myelin disintegration accompanied by mild T cell infiltration and a notable absence of myelin uptake by macrophages. Oligodendrocytes were strikingly enlarged, displaying oncocytic characteristics and showed cytoplasmic accumulation of mitochondria, which had mildly abnormal morphology on electron microscopy. The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis was excluded. Harding's disease, a variant of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, was then suspected. However, neither PCR for relevant mutations nor whole exome sequencing yielded known pathogenetic mutations in the patient's genome. We present a pattern of demyelinating tissue injury of unknown etiology with an oncocytic change of oligodendrocytes and a lack of adequate phagocytic response by macrophages, which to the best of our knowledge, has not been described before.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Nature Publishing Group,BMC
Subject
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Biopsy
/ Disease
/ DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics
/ Genomics
/ Humans
/ Multiple Sclerosis - genetics
/ Mutation
/ Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber - diagnosis
/ Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber - genetics
/ Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber - pathology
/ Patients
/ T cells
