Journal article
COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Abstract
Several independent studies have now demonstrated the presence of significant cognitive impairment in SLE patients. Such impairment, whether it precedes or follows overt NP events, suggests compromise of the neural substrate, irrespective of overt clinical NP symptomatology. The association between cognitive impairment and brain cross-reactive autoantibodies suggests one mechanism for CNS involvement in SLE that warrants further study; the data …
Authors
Denburg SD; Denburg JA; Carbotte RM; Fisk JD; Hanly JG
Journal
Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 815–831
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 1993
DOI
10.1016/s0889-857x(21)00208-8
ISSN
0889-857X