Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on September 15, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(12):1615-1616; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep297
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Inflammatory profile in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with central neuropsychiatric lupus, with and without associated factors
1Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México D.F., Mexico, 2Department of Neurology and 3The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA.
Correspondence to: Jorge Sánchez-Guerrero, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Vasco de Quiroga #15, 14000, México D.F., Mexico. E-mail: jsanchezguerrero7@gmail.com
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SIR, The ACR classifies neuropsychiatric (NP) manifestations into 19 syndromes [1]. From a classification perspective, the current approach of attributing NP manifestations in SLE patients may be appropriate; however, from a pathogenic standpoint, any misclassification will affect the advance in the knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms, their diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, it is important to know whether the inflammatory profile in NP manifestations due to lupus, with and without associated factors, is similar. We studied 35 patients (ACR criteria) [2] with central