EEG findings in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Peterová, V.; Faber, J.; Dostál, C.; Seidl, Z.; Obenberger, J.; Viták, T.; Danes, J.; Olejárová, M.
Sbornik Lekarsky 100(4): 309-313
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-5327 PMID: 11221481 Document Number: 507384
We have examined electroencephalography (EEG) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in 38 patients with verified diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In the clinical neurological finding there were epileptic attacks in 9 patients, 10 patients suffered from stroke, 15 patients from lupus headache, 4 patients from psychosis, in 15 patients cranial neuropathy was present, in one person extrapyramidal syndrome. EEG findings were in 12 patients normal (32%), in 26 patients abnormal (66%). In 3 cases there were focal abnormalities (8%), in 19 cases episodic ones (48%), four times abnormalities were diffuse (10%). Diffuse abnormalities correlated in EEG findings with case history of GM attacks.