Neurotoxicity of antitumoral IL-2 therapy: evoked cognitive potentials and brain mapping

Ital J Neurol Sci. 1994 Oct;15(7):341-6. doi: 10.1007/BF02339930.

Abstract

Antitumoral interleukin-2 (IL-2) therapy is frequently associated with a neurotoxicity that manifests itself in neuropsychiatric disturbances and, more rarely, with neurological focal signs. With the aim of documenting the involvement of cognitive functions after IL-2 treatment, we studied 20 patients using evoked cognitive potentials (P300) and computer analysis of the EEG signal. A comparison of the tests performed before and after the subcutaneous infusion of IL-2 showed a significant lengthening in mean P300 latencies and a percentage increase in the EEG frequencies contained with the delta and theta bands, especially in the frontal regions.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping*
  • Electroencephalography / drug effects
  • Evoked Potentials, Visual / drug effects*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Interleukin-2 / adverse effects*
  • Interleukin-2 / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms / complications
  • Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Nervous System Diseases / chemically induced*
  • Nervous System Diseases / physiopathology

Substances

  • Interleukin-2