Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

We present an unusual case of a 37-year-old woman diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus presenting with right-sided weakness and altered mentation. On computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, marked intracranial calcifications were seen. These localized calcifications are speculated...

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Autores principales: Bhardwaj, Arshia, Garg, Tulika, Gupta, Monica, Kaur, Narinder, Gupta, Samiksha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36120240
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27952
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author Bhardwaj, Arshia
Garg, Tulika
Gupta, Monica
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Gupta, Samiksha
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description We present an unusual case of a 37-year-old woman diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus presenting with right-sided weakness and altered mentation. On computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, marked intracranial calcifications were seen. These localized calcifications are speculated to be secondary to the necrotic focus of repeated episodes of vessel inflammation. However, the pathogenesis of cerebral calcifications is largely unknown.
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spelling pubmed-94651252022-09-15 Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Bhardwaj, Arshia Garg, Tulika Gupta, Monica Kaur, Narinder Gupta, Samiksha Cureus Internal Medicine We present an unusual case of a 37-year-old woman diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus presenting with right-sided weakness and altered mentation. On computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, marked intracranial calcifications were seen. These localized calcifications are speculated to be secondary to the necrotic focus of repeated episodes of vessel inflammation. However, the pathogenesis of cerebral calcifications is largely unknown. Cureus 2022-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9465125/ /pubmed/36120240 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27952 Text en Copyright © 2022, Bhardwaj et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bhardwaj, Arshia
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Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_fullStr Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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title_short Intracranial Calcifications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_sort intracranial calcifications in systemic lupus erythematosus
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36120240
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27952
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