Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an auto­ immune disorder mediated by the immune­ complex and characterised by its protean clinical mani festation and multisystemic involvement (Mak 2007a). Neuropsychiatric manifestation of SLE (NPSLE) is one of the major and most damag ing presentations. It comprises a wide range of neurological syndromes affecting the central, peripheral and autonomic ne...

Background: Despite great advances in the diagnosis and treatment of lupus, scientific community does not know perception our patients regarding knowledge disease relationship between disease. Fatigue had greatest impact on activities daily living, yet majority reported receiving no support or poor managing it 1 . Objectives: Through this initiative, is intended to investigate about quality lif...

crush preparation cytology technique was used during the operative procedure for the diagnosis of 199 cns tumors. this technique is simple, easy to perform, rapid, and inexpensive. the cytomorphologic findings were excellent and helped achieve a rapid and correct diagnosis. this technique was used on the tiny, small specimens which were not suitable for frozen sectioning. the results were compa...

background & objectives: chronicity of lupus nephritis (ln) should be considered for interaction of cell mediated immunity (cmi) and dendritic cells in glomeruli and tubulointerstitial areas. in this study establishment of immunohistopathological changes of dendritic cells and other immune effector cells in lupus nephritis comparing with non-lupus nephritis was performed. materials & m...

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus is a systemic autoimmune disorder with unclear etiology. The importance of some genes in the development of systemic lupus erythematosus has been implicated. The gene polymorphism in codon 72 has attracted a lot of attention and its role in the occurrence or progression of many cancers and autoimmune diseases especially systemic lupus erythematosus has ...

SUMMARY During the course of systemic lupus erythematosus in a 10 year-old girl, a go it er develo ped. Subc linical I ly pothyrnic.Jism was found, in addition rising titer of ant imicrosomal antibody and overt hypothyroidism after 6-week cessation of thyroxin tablet lead to the diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Antibodies directed to the thyroid may result in an autoimmune thyroiditis in...

Background & Objectives: Chronicity of lupus nephritis (LN) should be considered for interaction of cell mediated immunity (CMI) and dendritic cells in glomeruli and tubulointerstitial areas. In this study establishment of immunohistopathological changes of dendritic cells and other immune effector cells in lupus nephritis comparing with non-lupus nephritis was performed. Materials & Methods: ...

background: few investigations have focused on the patients with lupus nephritis (ln) and neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (npsle). this study was aimed to investigate the clinical features, mortality, and the predictors for mortality of this group of patients. patients and methods: medical records were retrospectively reviewed in sun yat-sen memorial hospital from 1996 to 2012. da...

Dear Editor, A 29-year-old female who had been treated in another hospital and who had a history of two stroke attacks was admitted with newly developed dysarthria. The two previous stroke attacks were lacunar syndromes caused by a right anterior thalamic infarction and a left lateral medullary infarction at 11 and 8 months prior to admission to our hospital, respectively. She denied having any...