Improvement of irregularity of brain vessel walls in systemic lupus erythematosus by tacrolimus
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Hiromi Kizu & Hiroaki Dobashi & Tomohiro Kameda & Kentaro Susaki & Masahiko Kawanishi & Toshihiko Ishida
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that affects multiple organs. Neuropsychiatric SLE develops during the course of the disease in 50% to 74% of SLE patients. The pathogenesis of CNS manifestations is multifactorial. The most common neuropathological finding has, in various studies, been multifocal infarcts. The cerebral vascular lesions in SLE that can cause cerebral infarction can be categorized into thromboembolism and vasculitis. On the other hand, tacrolimus is an immunosuppressive drug used for several autoimmune diseases, which inhibits the calcineurin pathway in T cells and reduces accompanying inflammatory cytokine production. We experienced that treatment of a patient with SLE with tacrolimus and steroid pulse therapy yielded improvement of vasculitis of brain vessels on magnetic resonance angiography. We suggest that tacrolimus may play an important role in the treatment of vasculitis of SLE.
Clin Rheumatol (2011) 30:715–718 Received: 1 August 2010 / Accepted: 29 September 2010 / Published online: 4 November 2010
