The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort

Anti-IgLON5 disease is an evolving entity that lies at the confluence of autoimmunity and neurodegeneration. Reports from India remain sparse. In this series, we describe seven Indian patients with anti-IgLON5–related disease. Patients presented across the fifth to eighth decades with a mean duratio...

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Main Authors: Avinash Ganapule, Divyani Garg, Ayush Agarwal, Anu Gupta, Roopa Rajan, Soaham Desai, Mitesh Chandarana, S Sidharth, Madhavi Tripathi, Ajay Garg, Divya M Radhakrishnan, Achal Kumar Srivastava
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Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2025-05-01
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author Avinash Ganapule
Divyani Garg
Ayush Agarwal
Anu Gupta
Roopa Rajan
Soaham Desai
Mitesh Chandarana
S Sidharth
Madhavi Tripathi
Ajay Garg
Divya M Radhakrishnan
Achal Kumar Srivastava
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Ayush Agarwal
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Roopa Rajan
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Divya M Radhakrishnan
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description Anti-IgLON5 disease is an evolving entity that lies at the confluence of autoimmunity and neurodegeneration. Reports from India remain sparse. In this series, we describe seven Indian patients with anti-IgLON5–related disease. Patients presented across the fifth to eighth decades with a mean duration of illness of 16 months. All had movement disorders, which included gait ataxia, parkinsonism, and chorea. Six patients had sleep disturbances. Five had a frontal dysexecutive dementia phenotype. Two had epilepsy. Bulbar involvement was present in four, and one had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-like features. Magnetic resonance imaging was abnormal in two cases. Positron emission tomography of the brain also contributed to diagnosis. Combination immunotherapies were used in most of the patients, with three showing a sustained response and two deaths reported due to sepsis-related complications. It is important to recognize the increasing spectrum of IgLON5-related disease to enable timely initiation of immunotherapy before marked degeneration occurs.
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spelling doaj-art-a72b297ae9304cb995ae2fa3d78ad3102025-08-20T03:29:26ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology0972-23271998-35492025-05-0128344044410.4103/aian.aian_1073_24The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian CohortAvinash GanapuleDivyani GargAyush AgarwalAnu GuptaRoopa RajanSoaham DesaiMitesh ChandaranaS SidharthMadhavi TripathiAjay GargDivya M RadhakrishnanAchal Kumar SrivastavaAnti-IgLON5 disease is an evolving entity that lies at the confluence of autoimmunity and neurodegeneration. Reports from India remain sparse. In this series, we describe seven Indian patients with anti-IgLON5–related disease. Patients presented across the fifth to eighth decades with a mean duration of illness of 16 months. All had movement disorders, which included gait ataxia, parkinsonism, and chorea. Six patients had sleep disturbances. Five had a frontal dysexecutive dementia phenotype. Two had epilepsy. Bulbar involvement was present in four, and one had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-like features. Magnetic resonance imaging was abnormal in two cases. Positron emission tomography of the brain also contributed to diagnosis. Combination immunotherapies were used in most of the patients, with three showing a sustained response and two deaths reported due to sepsis-related complications. It is important to recognize the increasing spectrum of IgLON5-related disease to enable timely initiation of immunotherapy before marked degeneration occurs.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/aian.aian_1073_24autoimmunedementiachorea
spellingShingle Avinash Ganapule
Divyani Garg
Ayush Agarwal
Anu Gupta
Roopa Rajan
Soaham Desai
Mitesh Chandarana
S Sidharth
Madhavi Tripathi
Ajay Garg
Divya M Radhakrishnan
Achal Kumar Srivastava
The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
autoimmune
dementia
chorea
title The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort
title_full The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort
title_fullStr The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort
title_full_unstemmed The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort
title_short The Expanding Spectrum of Anti-IgLON5 Disease: A Case Series from an Indian Cohort
title_sort expanding spectrum of anti iglon5 disease a case series from an indian cohort
topic autoimmune
dementia
chorea
url https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/aian.aian_1073_24
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