Table 1.
Neurological disease | No of patients (%) |
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease | 16 (1.1) |
Primary central nervous system lymphoma | 16 (1.1) |
Multiple sclerosis | 14 (1.0) |
Herpes virus infections* | 10 (0.7) |
Optic neuritis | 7 (0.5) |
Sarcoidosis | 5 (0.3) |
Behçet’s disease | 5 (0.3) |
Collagen vascular disease | 5 (0.3) |
Syphilis | 5 (0.3) |
Cogan’s syndrome | 3 (0.2) |
Central nervous system vasculitis | 2 (0.1) |
Other† | 4 (0.3) |
Unknown cause‡ | 24 (1.7) |
Total | 115 (7.9) |
*Neurological manifestations of herpes virus infections included encephalitis, CSF pleocytosis, cerebral infarct, optic neuritis, and other cranial neuropathies.
‡Other neurological diseases included Lyme disease, Takayasu’s disease, bacterial meningitis, and Bell’s palsy.
‡Neurological diseases of unknown cause included meningitis, myelitis, and inflammation of a nerve.