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Clinical features of central nervous system infections and experience in differential diagnosis from neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus in a cohort of 8491 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Mengdi JiangXiaochun ShiXin GaoJingwen NiuXiaomin HuLidan ZhaoXuan Zhang
Published in: Arthritis research & therapy (2019)
CNS infections are a fatal complication of SLE and can be difficult to discriminate from NPSLE. A simplified scoring system may help to make preliminary discrimination of CNS infections from NPSLE.
Keyphrases
  • systemic lupus erythematosus
  • blood brain barrier
  • disease activity
  • cerebrospinal fluid