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ReviewCNS drugs2011

Neuropsychiatric manifestations in systemic lupus erythematosus: epidemiology, pathophysiology and management.

Mariana Postal, Lilian T L Costallat, Simone Appenzeller

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Review in CNS drugs, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Towards precision medicine for systemic lupus erythematosus and neuropsychiatric manifestations.Expert review of precision medicine and drug development · 2025
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  3. Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Rheumatoid Arthritis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  4. Mechanisms of Psychiatric Comorbidities in Epilepsy.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022
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  8. Autoantibodies in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016
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  16. Anti-ribosomal P antibodies related to depression in early clinical course of systemic lupus erythematosus.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2013
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  17. Neuroinflammation and psychiatric illness.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mariana PostalDepartment of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, State University of Campinas, Brazil.
Lilian T L Costallat
Simone Appenzeller
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a relapsing-remitting autoimmune disease with CNS involvement occurring in up to 75% of patients. However, the frequency of neuropsychiatric manifestations in SLE studies varies widely, depending on the type of manifestations included and the method used for evaluation. CNS involvement may be considered primary if directly related to SLE activity in the CNS or secondary when related to treatment, infections, metabolic abnormalities or other systemic manifestations such as uraemia and hypertension. The pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric SLE is as yet unknown, though numerous autoantibodies and cytokines have been suggested as possible mediators. However, independent of the aetiology of the insult, the final common pathway in neuropsychiatric SLE is the involvement of the cerebral microvasculature. The diagnosis of primary CNS involvement by SLE is often difficult, as both focal and diffuse manifestations may occur and there is no gold standard for diagnosis. A high index of clinical suspicion, in addition to laboratory and neuroimaging findings may support the diagnosis. Treatment is mostly empirical, although one randomized controlled trial has shown that cyclophosphamide in addition to methylprednisolone is superior to methylprednisolone alone in severe neuropsychiatric SLE.

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AnimalsCerebellumHumansLupus Vasculitis, Central Nervous SystemRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

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PMID21870886
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