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Lint: levamisole-induced-leukoencephalopathy

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"There is a median latency of approximately 30 days between exposure to levamisole and development of this clinical syndrome, however there is a wide range between 1 day and time periods exceeding 4 months 1. The severity of the clinical syndrome does not seem to correlate with the exposed dose of levamisole 1."

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Acronyms
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"In addition to levamisole-induced leukoencephalopathy, levamisole may also be associated with an ANCA vasculitis, which typically presents with cutaneous vasculitis (e.g. purpuric rash), and rarely has other organ (e.g. renal, pulmonary) involvement 6."

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There Is
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"There is a median latency of approximately 30 days between exposure to levamisole and development of this clinical syndrome, however there is a wide range between 1 day and time periods exceeding 4 months 1. The severity of the clinical syndrome does not seem to correlate with the exposed dose of levamisole 1."

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Inline EG
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"focal neurological deficits (e.g. weakness, ataxia, dysphasia, dysphagia)"

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"constitutional symptoms (e.g. fever, headache, myalgias)"

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"Generally, patients have multiple, bilateral, asymmetric, and initially patchy and ovoid T2/FLAIR hyperintensities affecting the centrum semiovale, often with a periventricular predominance, and sparing subcortical U-fibres 1-8. In approximately one-half of cases the basal nuclei can be similarly involved, and in approximately one-third of cases the posterior fossa can be similarly involved 1."

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