Brief clinical observationElectroconvulsive therapy and cyclophosphamide in combination for severe neuropsychiatric lupus with catatonia
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Catatonia Associated With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature
2018, PsychosomaticsCitation Excerpt :Four articles contained insufficient clinical details to confirm a diagnosis of catatonia using DSM-5 criteria. The remaining 26 articles described a total of 35 patients (Table 1).14–39 All of the patients described were female, and their ages ranged from 13 to 47.
Pediatric Catatonia
2018, Complex Disorders in Pediatric Psychiatry: A Clinician's GuideCatatonia is hidden in plain sight among different pediatric disorders: A review article
2010, Pediatric NeurologyCitation Excerpt :Examples of autoimmune encephalitis associated with known antibodies are the antiphospholipid syndrome [91] and lupus cerebritis [92]. Catatonia has been associated with both these syndromes [91,93], as well as with other autoimmune disorders [94], and has responded to benzodiazepines [95] and electroconvulsive therapy [96,97]. Until the mid-1990s, most cases of nonviral encephalitis were considered paraneoplastic.
Catatonia and systemic lupus erythematosus: a clinical study of three cases
2009, General Hospital PsychiatryCitation Excerpt :Their etiology remains unclear: a vascular or immunological lesion (antinuclear antibody, anti-DNA antibody, C3, antiribosomal P antibody), the role of cytokines, metabolic disorders, a psychological reaction to chronic illness, or the presence of a previous psychiatric history [4]. Cases of catatonia associated with lupus are very rare (probably underdiagnosed and merged with delirium), and only a few case studies have been reported in the literature [6,8–16]. The three cases described here confirm that the diagnosis of catatonia as a result of a general medical condition rarely occurs without any other symptoms, since two of the three patients presented with an associated psychiatric disorder, which required specific treatment.