Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in an Iranian Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type I.
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) is a common hereditary neuro-cutaneous disease, with known gene mutations, that mainly involves the skin and nervous system. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an acquired inflammatory disease in which the myelin of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord is damaged. These two disease do not share any apparent pathological similarities. We herein present a 32-year-old woman with definite NF-1, who has recently been diagnosed with MS, which to the best of our knowledge is a rare co-occurrence. Though there are often neurologic sign and symptoms in patients with NF-1, they should not always be considered as the natural history of the disease, and other overlapped pathologies should be kept in mind, in order to not miss or postpone the efficient treatment.
Department of Neurology, Iran University of Medical Science , Tehran, Iran.
Nafiseh
N
Mohebi
Department of Neurology, Iran University of Medical Science , Tehran, Iran.
Mehdi
M
Moghaddasi
Department of Neurology, Iran University of Medical Science , Tehran, Iran.
Zaribafian
Z
Maryam
Multiple sclerosis; neurofibromatosis type 1; relapsing remitting