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KMID : 0363320010220040729
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Journal of Korean Oriental Internal Medicine
2001 Volume.22 No. 4 p.729 ~ p.733
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A Case of The Stroke Patient with Systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE)
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Paik Eun-Tan
Lim Seung-Man
Oh Sang-Deok
Shin Hyeon-Su
Kim Young-Tae
Ra Su-Yeon
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Abstract
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We report a case of the cerebellar infarction and pons, medulla and mid brain infarction seen in a 30-year-old female with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE). SLE has been diagnosed at 1992, and treated with western medicine for 10 years. The patient with right hand tremor and dysarthria, as the symptoms of a cerebellar infarction, visited our hospital. During treatment, the patient constantly complained left knee pain, it turned out the bone infarction and ligament injury in the MRI scan at May, 18, 2001, that was the side effect of the long period steroid therapy. At June 1, 2001, the patient revealed quadriparesis, dysphagia and dizziness. So we took the brain MRI scan, it showed pons, medulla and mid brain infarction. As the consequence of the oriental treatments, the symptoms of SLE had the improvement and the values of BUN, Creatinine were improved. But the symptoms of the stroke were not much changed.
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KEYWORD
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systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE), stroke
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