POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS-ERYTHEMATOSUS - BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN THERAPY - REPORT OF A CASE

Authors
BENGHORBEL I LOUZIR B OTHMANI S BOUSSEMA E MSADDEK F BAHRI M BATTIKH R BAHRI M
Citation
I. Benghorbel et al., POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS-ERYTHEMATOSUS - BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN THERAPY - REPORT OF A CASE, La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris, 74(23-26), 1998, pp. 994-996
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
La Semaine des hopitaux de Paris → ACNP
ISSN journal
00371777
Volume
74
Issue
23-26
Year of publication
1998
Pages
994 - 996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0037-1777(1998)74:23-26<994:PISL-B>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Polyradiculoneuropathy is an uncommon complication of systemic lupus e rythematosus (SLE). The classic treatment is corticosteroid therapy bu t is not consistently effective. The case of a 24-year-old female SLE patient who developed polyradiculoneuropathy five years after the onse t of her: disease is reported. The neurologic symptoms failed to respo nd to corticosteroid therapy but resolved after two courses of intrave nous polyvalent immunoglobulins.