Elisabetta Signoriello

PhD student of Neurology

Name Elisabetta
Surname Signoriello
Institution Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Telephone +39 081 014 51 87
Mobile +39 338 435 8763
E-Mail elisabetta.signoriello@gmail.com
Address II Division of Neurology & Center fo Rare Diseases Department of Medical Surgical, Neurological, Metabolic Sciences, and Aging, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Edificio 10 Via Sergio Pansini, 580131 Naples, Italy
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Member PUBLICATIONS

  • Diffuse glioblastoma resembling acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis.

    Publication Date: 01/10/2017 on Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
    by Schettino C, Caranci F, Lus G, Signoriello E, Eoli M, Anghileri E, Pollo B, Melone MAB, Di Iorio G, Finocchiaro G, Ugga L, Tedeschi E
    DOI: 10.21037/qims.2017.06.09

    We report the case of a young man with sudden onset of diplopia after an upper respiratory tract infection. Based on the first radiological findings acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis, a variant of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, was suspected and treatment with high dose intravenous dexamethasone was started but it was stopped for intolerance. The patient clinically worsened, developing gait instability, ataxia and ophthalmoplegia; brain MRI performed 20 days later showed severe progression of the disease with subependymal dissemination. After brain biopsy of the right temporal lesion the histological diagnosis was glioblastoma. These findings suggest that MRI features of acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis may dissimulate the diagnosis of diffuse glioma/glioblastoma. This case underscores the importance of considering diffuse glioma in the differential diagnosis of atypical signs and symptoms of acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis and underlines the relevant role of integrating neuroradiologic findings with neuropathology.

  • Sativex in resistant multiple sclerosis spasticity: Discontinuation study in a large population of Italian patients (SA.FE. study).

    Publication Date: 01/08/2017 on PloS one
    by Messina S, Solaro C, Righini I, Bergamaschi R, Bonavita S, Bossio RB, Brescia Morra V, Costantino G, Cavalla P, Centonze D, Comi G, Cottone S, Danni MC, Francia A, Gajofatto A, Gasperini C, Zaffaroni M, Petrucci L, Signoriello E, Maniscalco GT, Spinicci G, Matta M, Mirabella M, Pedà G, Castelli L, Rovaris M, Sessa E, Spitaleri D, Paolicelli D, Granata A, Zappia M, Patti F,
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180651

    The approval of Sativex for the management of multiple sclerosis (MS) spasticity opened a new opportunity to many patients. In Italy, the healthcare payer can be fully reimbursed by the involved pharma company with the cost of treatment for patients not responding after a 4 week (28 days) trial period (Payment by Results, PbR), and 50% reimbursed with the cost of 6 weeks (42 days) treatment for other patients discontinuing (Cost Sharing, CS). The aim of our study was to describe the Sativex discontinuation profile from a large population of spasticity treated Italian MS patients.

  • The EDSS integration with the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis and orientation tests.

    Publication Date: 01/11/2016 on Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
    by Saccà F, Costabile T, Carotenuto A, Lanzillo R, Moccia M, Pane C, Russo CV, Barbarulo AM, Casertano S, Rossi F, Signoriello E, Lus G, Brescia Morra V
    DOI: 10.1177/1352458516677592

    Despite cognitive tests have been validated in multiple sclerosis (MS), a neuropsychological evaluation is not implemented in the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) scoring.

  • Lymphocytosis as a response biomarker of natalizumab therapeutic efficacy in multiple sclerosis.

    Publication Date: 01/06/2016 on Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
    by Signoriello E, Lanzillo R, Brescia Morra V, Di Iorio G, Fratta M, Carotenuto A, Lus G
    DOI: 10.1177/1352458515604381

    Natalizumab is an effective therapy in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), as it reduces lymphocyte transmigration through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and induces lymphocytosis.

  • Treatment withdrawal in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a retrospective cohort study.

    Publication Date: 01/03/2016 on European journal of neurology
    by Lus G, Signoriello E, Maniscalco GT, Bonavita S, Signoriello S, Gallo C
    DOI: 10.1111/ene.12790

    To investigate the effect of drug withdrawal on the course of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RR-MS).

  • Fingolimod efficacy in multiple sclerosis associated with Sjogren syndrome.

    Publication Date: 01/02/2015 on Acta neurologica Scandinavica
    by Signoriello E, Sagliocchi A, Fratta M, Lus G
    DOI: 10.1111/ane.12357

    Sjogren syndrome (SS) is a common autoimmune disease characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the exocrine glands with neurological involvement in about 20% of patients. The neurological manifestations in the central nervous system CNS may vary and include a multiple sclerosis (MS)-like disease, and the treatments with immunosuppressive drugs have been undertaken.

  • Epstein Barr virus infection reactivation as a possible trigger of primary biliary cirrhosis-like syndrome in a patient with multiple sclerosis in the course of fingolimod treatment.

    Publication Date: 01/12/2014 on Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive
    by Marrone A, Signoriello E, Alfieri G, Dalla Mora L, Rinaldi L, Rainone I, Adinolfi LE, Lus G

    Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and multiple sclerosis (MS) are considered autoimmune diseases with a multifactorial aetiology which is thought to be due to a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. An association of both diseases has been previously described in sporadic case reports. Fingolimod, an antagonist of the sphingosine 1 phosphate receptor family (S1P1/3/4/5), is a promising and effective drug in the treatment of MS. Here we describe a case of PBC like syndrome that was unmasked, concomitantly or consequently to Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infection reactivation, in a 34 year old male patient with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis who was receiving fingolimod treatment.