The course of incidental intraorbital cavernous hemangioma in a patient with myasthenia gravis treated with cyclosporine: a case report

Shingo Konno; Wataru Hagiwara; Miyuki Sasaki; Akihisa Fuse; Tomomi Imamura; Masashi Inoue; Hisao Kitazono; Toshiki Fujioka

doi:10.1159/000362117

The course of incidental intraorbital cavernous hemangioma in a patient with myasthenia gravis treated with cyclosporine: a case report

Case Rep Neurol. 2014 Mar 26;6(1):88-91. doi: 10.1159/000362117. eCollection 2014 Jan.

Authors

Shingo Konno¹, Wataru Hagiwara¹, Miyuki Sasaki¹, Akihisa Fuse¹, Tomomi Imamura¹, Masashi Inoue¹, Hisao Kitazono¹, Toshiki Fujioka¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Toho University, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

A 69-year-old woman presented with generalized myasthenia gravis and a left orbital cavernous hemangioma (OCH), which elevated the optic nerve and displaced the external eye muscles. Cyclosporine treatment induced a gradual size reduction in the OCH, and consequently contributed to improved external ocular symptoms in combination with immunosuppressant effects.

Keywords: Cyclosporine; External ocular symptoms; Myasthenia gravis; Orbital cavernous hemangioma.

Publication types

Case Reports