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Devic’s syndrome concomitant with nephritis in a young woman

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We presented a 34-year-old woman with blurred vision and inability to walk due to acute optic neuritis and transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica (Devic’s syndrome), for an interesting presentation of this syndrome with proteinuria as the first manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus.

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Abbreviations

SLE:

Systemic lupus erythematosus

NMO:

Neuromyelitis optica

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine—Al Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Peyman Mottaghi, Hadi Karimzadeh, Zahra Seidbonakdar, Mansoor Karimifar & Mansour Salesi

  2. Department of Neurology—Al Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Fereshteh Ashtari

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Mottaghi, P., Ashtari, F., Karimzadeh, H. et al. Devic’s syndrome concomitant with nephritis in a young woman. Clin Rheumatol 28, 1239–1240 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-009-1232-x

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