title: [Progressive lupus dementia. 2 cases with or without antiphospholipid antibodies].
abstract: Two cases of lupus dementia presented many points of particular interest: 1) the progressive installation of intellectual deterioration, inaugural for the first observation; 2) the diagnostic difficulties of neurolupus with the ARA criteria; 3) the appearance of cerebral magnetic resonance imaging with confluent hypersignals of the periventricular white matter on T2-weighted images; 4) the patholophysiological hypotheses: vascular disease? immunologic disease?; 5) the clinical improvement and SPECT amelioration for the second patient with corticosteroids.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Lyon.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Robin
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gonnaud
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Durieu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Croisile
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garassus
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Levrat
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chazot
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aimard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trillet
mesh_terms: D017152:Antibodies, Antiphospholipid / Q000032:analysis*; D003704:Dementia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D017152:Antibodies, Antiphospholipid
vernacular_title: Démence lupique progressive. Deux cas avec anticorps antiphospholipides ou non.