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At onset, the clinical picture comprised rapidly progressive spastic hemi- or limb pareses as well as disturbances of vision, speech, and orientation. Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging showed T2-hyperintense, confluent, mainly supratentorial lesions. Four patients developed punctate contrast enhancement as a radiological sign of an immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), three of them having a fatal course. In the cerebrospinal fluid, the initial JC virus load (8\u201325,787 copies\/ml) did not correlate with interindividual severity; however, virus load corresponded to clinical dynamics. Brain biopsies ( n\u2009=\u20092), performed 2\u2009months after symptom onset, showed spotted demyelination and microglial activation. All patients had lymphopenia in the range of 270\u20131150\/\u00b5l. <\/jats:p><jats:p> To control JC virus, three patients received a combination of mirtazapine and mefloquine, another two patients additionally took cidofovir. One patient was treated with cidofovir only, and one patient had a combined regimen with mirtazapine, mefloquine, cidofovir, intravenous interleukin 2, and JC capsid vaccination. To treat sarcoidosis, the four previously untreated patients received prednisolone. Three patients had taken immunosuppressants prior to PML onset, which were subsequently stopped as a potential accelerator of opportunistic infections. After 6\u201354\u2009months of follow up, three patients reached an incomplete recovery, one patient progressed, but survived so far, and two patients died. One further patient was additionally diagnosed with lung cancer, which he died from after 24\u2009months. We conclude that the combination of PML and sarcoidosis is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. PML can occur as the first sign of sarcoidosis without preceding immunosuppressive treatment. 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