Table 1.
Clinical features of our cohort of MRI-negative myelitis in SLE.
| Case | Gender | Age at diagnosis of SLE(years) | Myelopathy | Previous episodes of neurological manifestation | Other system involved | SLEDAI-2K at presentation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age at onset (years) | Time to nadir (weeks) | Cross-sectional localization | Longitudinal localization | Other central or peripheral nervous system involved | Temporal relation to other organ involvement | ||||||
| 1. | Female | 21 | 20 | 3 | Motor, sensory, autonomic | Cervical | Cerebral cortex, Radiculoneuropathy | Preceding | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal, Hematological | 23 |
| 2. | Female | 26 | 37 | 11 | Motor, sensory, autonomic | Cervical | Neuropathy | succeeding | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal, Lupus Nephritis | 13 |
| 3. | Female | 26 | 27 | 1 | Motor, autonomic | Cervical | Cerebral cortex | succeeding | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal, Hematological | 28 |
| 4. | Female | 35 | 37 | 12 | Motor, autonomic | Dorsal | Nil | succeeding | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal | 15 |
| 5. | Female | 20 | 20 | 3 | Motor, autonomic | Cervical | Radiculoneuropathy | simultaneous | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Hematological, Lupus Nephritis, Serosal | 27 |
| 6. | Female | 24 | 25 | 6 | Motor, sensory, autonomic | Dorsal | Neuropathy | succeeding | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal | 15 |
| 7. | Male | 29 | 29 | 2 | Motor, autonomic | Cervical | Nil | succeeding | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal, Hematological, Lupus Nephritis | 19 |
| 8. | Female | 45 | 45 | 1 | Motor, autonomic | Cervical | Radiculoneuropathy | simultaneous | Nil | Constitutional, Mucocutaneous, Musculoskeletal, Lupus Nephritis | 25 |