John G Hanly, Qiuju Li, Li Su, Murray B Urowitz, Caroline Gordon, Sang-Cheol Bae, Juanita Romero-Diaz, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero, Sasha Bernatsky, Ann E Clarke, Daniel J Wallace, David A Isenberg, Anisur Rahman, Joan T Merrill, Paul Fortin, Dafna D Gladman, Ian N Bruce, Michelle Petri, Ellen M Ginzler, M A Dooley, Kristjan Steinsson, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Asad A Zoma, Susan Manzi, Ola Nived, Andreas Jonsen, Munther A Khamashta, Graciela S Alarcón, Winn Chatham, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Cynthia Aranow, Meggan Mackay, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Manuel Ramos-Casals, S Sam Lim, Murat Inanc, Kenneth C Kalunian, Soren Jacobsen, Christine A Peschken, Diane L Kamen, Anca Askanase, Chris Theriault, Vernon Farewell
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency, characteristics, and outcomes of cerebrovascular events (CerVEs), as well as clinical and autoantibody associations in a multiethnic/racial inception cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS: A total of 1,826 patients were assessed annually for 19 neuropsychiatric (NP) events, including 5 types of CerVEs: 1) stroke, 2) transient ischemia, 3) chronic multifocal ischemia, 4) subarachnoid/intracranial hemorrhage, and 5) sinus thrombosis...
October 2018: Arthritis Care & Research