Abstracts tagged "magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nervous system lupus"

Abstract Number: 2652 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Headache in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Is Associated with Reduced Cerebral Grey Matter Volume, but not with Measures of Glial Activation, Anti-NR2-, or Anti-P Antibodies
Anne B Tjensvoll¹, Maria B Lauvsnes², Shunsei Hirohata³, Jan T Kvaløy⁴, Mona K Beyer⁵, Erna Harboe⁶, Lasse G Gøransson⁶, Ole J Greve⁷ and Roald Omdal⁸, ¹Department of Neurology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology Unit, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, ³Int Med/Rheumatol & Infec Dis, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan, ⁴Research Department, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, ⁵Department of Radiology and Nuclear medicine, Oslo University Hospital, National Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, ⁷Department of Radiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, ⁸Department of Internal Medicin, Clinical Immunology Unit, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
Background/Purpose: Headache, especially migraine, is frequent and one of the most common neuropsychiatric manifestations in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A possible mechanism for this is…