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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Neurol. 2014 Apr 28;75(5):659–669. doi: 10.1002/ana.24144

Table 1. PML patients' characteristics.

CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF 49 PML PATIENTS
Mean Age, y (range) 54.51 (21-89)
Gender M:F 33 (67.3 %):16 (32.7 %)
CSF PCR diagnosis 39 (79.6 %)
Histologic diagnosis 10 (20.4 %)
Underlying immunosuppression
  HIV infection 19 (38.8 %)
 Hematologic malignancy* 13 (26.5 %)
 Hematologic disease- other 7 (14.3 %)
 Autoimmune disease 6 (12.2 %)
 Other§ 4 (8.2 %)
IRIS at the time of MRI 20 (40.8 %)
PML-S:PML-P 26 (53.1 %):23 (46.9 %)
 HIV+ PML-S 13 (73%)
 HIV- PML-S 12 (40%)

Abbreviations: PML = progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy; PCR = polymerase chain reaction; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; IRIS = immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome; PML-S = PML-survivors; PML-P = PML-progressors

*

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (n=9), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (n=2), NK cell leukemia (n=1), follicular center cell lymphoma (n=1)

Idiopathic lymphocytopenia (n=2), lymphomatoid granulomatosis (n=1), common variable immunodeficiency (n=1), Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (n=2), Good syndrome (n=1)

Multiple sclerosis treated with natalizumab (n=3), lupus erythematosus (n=1), dermatomyositis (n=1), rheumatoid arthritis (n=1)

§

brainstem glioma (n=1), cirrhosis (n=2), lung transplant (n=1)