Transient focal neurologic deficits complicating interleukin-2 therapy

Neurology. 1990 Jan;40(1):154-5. doi: 10.1212/wnl.40.1.154.

Abstract

We report 2 patients with transient, focal, repetitive, stereotyped episodes of neurologic deficits during treatment with interleukin-2. One patient had recurrent monocular blindness, while the 2nd had recurrent homonymous quadrantanopia. We suggest that these attacks are provoked by endothelial cell activation induced by interleukin-2.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Blindness / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy
  • Interleukin-2 / therapeutic use*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms / therapy
  • Vision Disorders / etiology*

Substances

  • Interleukin-2