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KMID : 0376119940210010145
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Medical Journal of the Red Cross Hospital
1994 Volume.21 No. 1 p.145 ~ p.152
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A Psychiatric Manifestation Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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Abstract
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), one of collagen diseases, has become known to psychiatry because it frequently manifests itself in disorders of the emotional life of the individual. Psychiatric manifestations may occur at any time during the
natural
history of the disease because of the possibility of brain involvement or may result from the psychological stress of the illness when the central nervous system is not involved.
The authors reported a case of psychiatric manifestation associated with SLE in a single Korean woman. The characteristics of this case were as follows: The psychiatric manifestations similar to the acute organic mental disorder, which seemed to
disorientation, distractibility, confusion, visual hallucination and grandiose delusion. The physical symptom and signs such as "butterfly rash", discoid lupus, general myalgia, malaise, arthralgia, high fever and elevated ESR.
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