Acute transverse myelopathy complicating systemic lupus erythematosus.

Transverse myelopathy and hyperphagia in systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report.

Neurological manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been observed as early as 1875. 1 These included subtle personality changes to frank psychosis, fits, peripheral neuropathy and strokes. Until 1978 only 18 authors have reported a total number of 26 cases of transverse myelopathy in SLE. 2 To our knowledge hyperphagia complicating SLE has never been reported before. We presen...

Vasculitis and oral and genital ulcers: Behçet's syndrome or HIV infection?

tures and functional outcomes. Lupus 1996; 5: 294-9. 8. MOK CC, LAU CS, CHAN YET, WONG RWS: Acute transverse myelopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus: Clinical presentation, treatment and outcome. J Rheumatol 1998; 25: 467-73. 9. OSAWA H, YAMABE H, KAIZUKA M, et al.: Systemic lupus erythematosus associated with transverse myelitis and parkinsonism symptoms. Lupus 1997; 6: 613-5. 10. BAVILE L,...

Lupus myelopathy in a child.

A 5-year-old female developed, after a 7-month period of fever, anorexia, weight loss, and a transitory cutaneous erythematous eruption, a severe acute transverse myelopathy, with a partial recovery of motor and sensory function. She had positive antinuclear and antidouble-stranded DNA antibodies but no antiphospholipid antibodies. Six months later she had massive proteinuria and restarted trea...

Oral contraceptive-related transverse sinus thrombosis as an initial manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome in the absence of systemic lupus erythematosus

Lupus-related myelopathy: report of three cases and review of the literature.

Transverse myelopathy is an uncommon complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Three patients with SLE are reported who developed transverse myelopathy, including the neuropathological findings in one patient on whom necropsy was performed. Paraparesis was present in all three cases, but definite sensory changes were present in only one patient. In two patients, the CSF findings were ...