title: Multimodal therapy in life-threatening cerebral lupus erythematosus: the benefit of cerebrospinal fluid pheresis.
abstract: A 27-year-old female patient with severe cerebral systemic lupus erythematosus did not respond to conventional therapy, including high-dose corticosteroids and high-dose pulsed cyclophosphamide therapy. Cerebrospinal fluid filtration (pheresis) led to rapid and lasting neurological improvement and clinical cure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Innsbruck, Medical School, Austria.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pfausler
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bösch
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grubwieser
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vollert
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Greil
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hagn
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schmutzhard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000737:chemistry*; D005260:Female; D005374:Filtration; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000628:therapy*