Abstract:
:CLCN2-related leukoencephalopathy (CC2L) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by variants in CLCN2. We report a boy whose brain MRI during an episode of aseptic meningitis at the age of 6 years revealed wide areas of restriction on diffusion-weighted images (DWI) in the cerebral subcortical white matter called bright tree appearance (BTA). In addition to the BTA, high intensity signals were also observed bilaterally in the posterior limbs of the internal capsules, cerebral peduncles, middle cerebellar peduncles, cerebellar white matter, and brain stem (longitudinal pontine bundle) along with low apparent diffusion coefficient values in the same areas. The BTA was transient, seen only during the acute phase of the aseptic meningitis. With the resolution of the infection, his meningitis symptoms completely resolved, but abnormal brain MRI findings remained, other than BTA, which disappeared. At age 13 years, whole exome sequencing revealed a homozygous variant (c.61dupC, p.(Leu21Profs*27)) of CLCN2. He had no intellectual disability or neurological abnormalities. The transient DWI high-intensity signals in the subcortical white matter and the T2 high-intensity signals in the white matter could reflect varying degrees of water imbalance in the extracellular space in myelin sheaths in CC2L.
journal_name
Brain Devjournal_title
Brain & developmentauthors
Ozaki A,Sasaki M,Hiraide T,Sumitomo N,Takeshita E,Shimizu-Motohashi Y,Ishiyama A,Saito T,Komaki H,Nakagawa E,Sato N,Nakashima M,Saitsu Hdoi
10.1016/j.braindev.2020.02.008subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-06-01 00:00:00pages
462-467issue
6eissn
0387-7604issn
1872-7131pii
S0387-7604(20)30089-9journal_volume
42pub_type
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