[Progressive lupus dementia. 2 cases with or without antiphospholipid antibodies]
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Simultaneous Distinction of Monospecific and Mixed DFS70 Patterns During ANA Screening with a Novel HEp-2 ELITE/DFS70 Knockout Substrate
Published on: January 17, 2018
C Robin1, P M Gonnaud, I Durieu
1Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Lyon.
Abstract:
Two cases of lupus dementia presented many points of particular interest: 1) the progressive installation of intellectual deterioration, inaugural for the first observation; 2) the diagnostic difficulties of neurolupus with the ARA criteria; 3) the appearance of cerebral magnetic resonance imaging with confluent hypersignals of the periventricular white matter on T2-weighted images; 4) the patholophysiological hypotheses: vascular disease? immunologic disease?; 5) the clinical improvement and SPECT amelioration for the second patient with corticosteroids.
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