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Central nervous system vasculopathy associated with neonatal lupus
Kazuhiko Inoue1, Junichiro Fukushige, Takuro Ohno
1Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan.
Pediatric Neurology
|January 30, 2002
Abstract:
Neonatal lupus erythematosus, characterized mainly by congenital heart block and transient skin lesions, is usually self-limited. A patient with history of neonatal lupus erythematosus and congenital heart block developed central nervous system vasculopathy resembling moyamoya disease and hypertension at 17 years of age. Careful examination and follow-up of possible central nervous system complications later in life might be important in infants with neonatal lupus erythematosus.