Diagnosis, treatment, and functional outcomes for two adolescent female patients with lupus myelitis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Transverse myelitis is a rare neurologic complication associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), also known as lupus myelitis. Little is known about the optimal treatment regimen for the disease or the functional outcomes after diagnosis, especially for pediatric patients.

Methods

A retrospective case series at a large, academic pediatric tertiary care center was performed to describe the clinical presentation, diagnostic approach, early treatment, and functional outcomes in two pediatric patients diagnosed with lupus myelitis as a presenting sign of new-onset SLE.

Results

Description of baseline patient characteristics, presenting symptoms and clinical features, laboratory work-up and neuroimaging findings, immunomodulatory therapy, complication

SUBMITTER: Claus D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11949943 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature