Demyelination with autoimmune features: a distinct clinical entity? Results from a longitudinal cohort.

Dionysis S NikolopoulosDimitris KitsosMatilda PapathanasiouMaria ChondrogianniAikaterini TheodorouPanagiotis GarantziotisAntigone PietaTriantafyllos DoskasGeorge K BertsiasKonstantinos VoumvourakisDimitrios T Boumpas Antonis Fanouriakis

Published in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2021)

A significant number of patients with demyelination do not fulfill criteria for either MS or SLE at follow-up. These patients exhibit lupus-like autoimmune features and may represent a distinct entity, 'demyelination with autoimmune features'.

Keyphrases

multiple sclerosis
systemic lupus erythematosus
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
disease activity
chronic kidney disease
mass spectrometry
drug induced
peritoneal dialysis
ms ms