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Neurotoxicity including posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome after initiation of calcineurin inhibitors in transplanted methylmalonic acidemia patients: Two case reports and review of the literature.

Molema F, Williams M, Langendonk J, Darwish-Murad S, van de Wetering J, Jacobs E, Onkenhout W, Brusse E, van der Eerden A, Wagenmakers M

JIMD reports, 2020 Jan

Abstract

New neurological symptoms in methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) patients after liver and/or kidney transplantation (LKT) are often described as metabolic stroke-like-events. Since calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are a well-known cause of new neurological symptoms in non-MMA transplanted patients, we investigated the incidence of CNI-induced neurotoxicity including posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) in post-transplanted MMA patients.

doi: 10.1002/jmd2.12088