Cerebral lupus erythematosus responding to plasmaphaeresis.
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Cerebral lupus erythematosus responding to plasmaphaeresis.
A 44-year-old nurse with a 12-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus developed a schizophrenia-like psychosis due to cerebral lupus. Prednisolone in doses up to 200 mg daily was ineffective. Levels of immune complexes by the Raji cell assay were greatly increased in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Plasma exchange was performed on 4 occasions over 4 days. Three days later, there was a marke...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.57.666.247