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Response to letter: ’Response to: ’Neuropsychiatric lupus or not? Cerebral hypoperfusion by perfusion-weighted MRI in normal-appearing white matter in primary neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus' by Papadaki et al' by Wallace.
  1. Efrosini Papadaki1,2,
  2. Antonis Fanouriakis3,4,
  3. Eleftherios Kavroulakis1,
  4. Dimitra Karageorgou1,
  5. Prodromos Sidiropoulos3,
  6. George Bertsias3,5,
  7. Panagiotis Simos2,6,
  8. Dimitrios T Boumpas4,5,7,8,9
  1. 1Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
  2. 2Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece
  3. 3Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
  4. 4Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  5. 5Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
  6. 6Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece
  7. 7Laboratory of Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
  8. 8Joint Academic Rheumatology Program, Medical School, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  9. 9Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
  1. Correspondence to Professor Efrosini Papadaki, School of Medicine, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion 71306, Greece; fpapada{at}otenet.gr

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-212949

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    We thank Dr Wallace1 for his interest in our paper entitled ‘Neuropsychiatric lupus or not? Cerebral hypoperfusion by perfusion-weighted MRI in normal appearing white matter in primary neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus’ by Papadakiet al2 and for giving us the opportunity to clarify aspects of our work. Our response to the points raised, follow next:

    1. American College of Rheumatology (ACR) nomenclature. We do agree that this nomenclature, although useful, is indeed outdated and may need refinement and updating. In our study, the attribution of primary NPSLE …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

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