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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on February 3, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(5):693-695; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh560
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Devic's syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus and probable antiphospholipid syndrome

S. Ferreira, P. Marques, E. Carneiro1, D. D'Cruz2 and G. Gama

Internal Medicine Department (B) and 1 Neuroradiology Department, São João Hospital, Porto, Portugal and 2 The Lupus Research Unit, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK

Correspondence to: S. A. M. P. Ferreira, Serviço de Medicina B, Hospital São João, Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200 Porto, Portugal. E-mail: susanaferreira14@hotmail.com

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Neuropsychiatric lupus is common and results in significant morbidity [1, 2]. Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) may play a major role and are associated with transverse myelitis [2–4], often with a significant response to anticoagulation [4, 5]. Devic's syndrome is described in multiple sclerosis (MS) [6] and has rarely been associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [5, 7–9]. We present a 44-yr-old woman with SLE who developed neuromyelitis optica and probable antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).

She was healthy until 1990 when schizophrenia was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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