Treatment of Severe Japanese Encephalitis Complicated With Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome With Protein A Immunoadsorption: A Case Report
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY(2022)
Abstract
A severely comatose female patient was diagnosed with Japanese encephalitis (JE). Her condition was complicated by Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). After antiviral, glucocorticoid, and immunoglobulin treatment, the patient's consciousness was restored, and she could breathe spontaneously. Following this, new-onset, primarily demyelinating GBS developed, which progressed to demyelination combined with axonal injury. The patient was switched to protein A immunoadsorption (PAIA) therapy, and her Hughes score decreased rapidly, from 4 to 1 after 6 months. This patient is the first to receive PAIA combined with an antiviral-glucocorticoid-immunoglobulin regimen to treat encephalitis, meningitis, HT, and GBS caused by JE infection, thereby reflecting the importance of clinical application of PAIA in the treatment of immunological complications of JE.
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Key words
Japanese encephalitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, protein A immunoadsorption, case report
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