of SLE. Central nervous system lupus The spectrum of recognised CNS lupus features has grown from ... 1. Aetiology and epidemiology Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem autoimmune ... system. Livedo reticularis is a useful clinical marker. The clinical features of APS continue ...
and a formal urinary protein:creatinine ratio calculated. Central and peripheral nervous system ... Section 1: Epidemiology and aetiology Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex ... part but the precise role of estrogens in modulating the immune system is unclear. SLE is more ...
of nervous system involvement in SLE patients ranges from 14 per cent to over 90 per cent, depending ... WEBSITE OF THE WEEK I usually keep it simple for the Website of the Week, but this week I have chosen a site that is a little more challenging. It concerns the neurological complications of systemic ...
Hysteria is a disease more particularly manifested through the nervous system and is, almost...either as a pure nervous and spasmodic affection; second, as a simulator of another and more direct ...
Contributed by Ms Gilli Vafidis, consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Central Middlesex Hospital....neuritis, central serous retinopathy, macular haemorrhage). Sometimes there are additional clues. Onset ... few hours may be critical if sight is to be saved. In temporal arteritis, systemic steroids reverse ... , the potential that stem cell therapy and genetic engineering holds for repair and regeneration of nervous tissue ...
be many other causes of hiccups, including those of cardiac, metabolic, pulmonary or central nervous system origin, as well as toxic and sometimes psychiatric causes. Therefore, investigation may require ...
. Disruptions in the central nervous system (15%), namely the brain stem, or psychological or psychiatric conflicts (10%), as well as cardiovascular, visual, proprioceptive and other systemic conditions can cause ... themselves. 1. Aetiology In about 40% of vertigo, the problem lies in the peripheral vestibular system ...
Contributed by Ms Gilli Vafidis, consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Central Middlesex Hospital, London....by opacity preventing light reaching the photo-receptors (for example, cataract) or by an interrupted nervous ... . In young, healthy people, sudden or rapid loss of vision is unusual and in the absence of systemic or congenital disease, the differential diagnosis is short, and includes optic neuritis and central serous ...
impulses from peripheral receptors to the central nervous system, are three times higher in patients ... -fold in fibromyalgia patients. These features act together with central sensitisation through increased glutamate ... illness may be considered. Differential diagnoses should include systemic lupus erythematosis, Sj gren ...
involve other tissue such as bone, muscle, central nervous system or blood vessels. One sign that is said ...
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