Health Boards
Wed-13-01-2016, 22:35 PM
A bit higher, actually.
"In the first case, Nieuwkamp and colleagues noted that their patient had been taking compounded delayed-release dimethyl fumarate for psoriasis since June 2012.
She'd had normal leukocyte and lymphocyte counts before starting the drug, but hit a low of 792 cells/mm3 by June 2014. At that time, she tested negative for JC virus and was diagnosed with atypical ischemic stroke. But by mid-August, she'd been transferred to another hospital with progressive hemiparesis and somnolence.
She was treated but her condition continued to worsen and she died by the end of August, and an autopsy confirmed PML, with JC virus DNA found in both brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid."
"In the first case, Nieuwkamp and colleagues noted that their patient had been taking compounded delayed-release dimethyl fumarate for psoriasis since June 2012.
She'd had normal leukocyte and lymphocyte counts before starting the drug, but hit a low of 792 cells/mm3 by June 2014. At that time, she tested negative for JC virus and was diagnosed with atypical ischemic stroke. But by mid-August, she'd been transferred to another hospital with progressive hemiparesis and somnolence.
She was treated but her condition continued to worsen and she died by the end of August, and an autopsy confirmed PML, with JC virus DNA found in both brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid."