Case 14-2024: A 30-Year-Old Woman with Back Pain, Leg Stiffness, and Falls

N Engl J Med. 2024 May 9;390(18):1712-1719. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2312733.

Authors

Christopher T Doughty¹, Pamela W Schaefer¹, Kate Brizzi¹, Jenny J Linnoila¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital (C.T.D.), the Departments of Radiology (P.W.S.), Medicine (K.B.), and Neurology (K.B., J.J.L.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Neurology (C.T.D., K.B., J.J.L.), Radiology (P.W.S.), and Medicine (K.B., J.J.L.), Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.

PMID: 38718362
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2312733

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Accidental Falls*
Adult
Back Pain* / etiology
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Leg
Spasm / etiology
Stiff-Person Syndrome* / complications
Stiff-Person Syndrome* / diagnosis
Stiff-Person Syndrome* / immunology
Stiff-Person Syndrome* / therapy

Substances

anti-GAD65 autoantibody