@article{bc1a866b8abe4fe3ad3b96d40ec8021d,
title = "Neuropsychiatric problems in mixed connective tissue disease",
abstract = "A group of 20 patients with mixed connective tissue disease, followed for up to five years, was found to have a 55 per cent incidence of neuropsychiatric problems. An aseptic meningitis-like syndrome was the most common presentation and was rapidly responsive to corticosteroid therapy. Other findings were psychosis, convulsions, peripheral neuropathy, trigeminal neuropathy and cerebellar ataxia. An abnormal cerebrospinal fluid was found in five patients; mild pleocytosis, an increased protein content and a first phase colloidal gold curve were the main abnormalities. These neuropsychiatric problems have not been a cause of mortality in this group of patients with mixed connective tissue disease.",
author = "Bennett, {Robert M.} and Bong, {David M.} and Spargo, {Benjamin H.}",
note = "Funding Information: From the Departments of Medicine, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oregon; and the Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, lilinois. This work was presented in part at the XIV International Congress of Rheumatology, San Francisco, 1977, and appeared as Abstract 67 in the Proceedings. It was supported by grants from the Oregon and Illinois Chapters of the Arthritis Foundation and by a Clinical Center Grant from the National Arthritis Foundation. Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. Robert M. Bennett, Division of Immunology, Allergy, and Rheumatology, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, 3181 S. W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97201. Manuscript accepted June 1, 1978. l Recipient of a Public Heafth Research Cancer Award K 6-HL-4418. Present address: Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, 950 E. 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637.",
year = "1978",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1016/0002-9343(78)90747-7",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "65",
pages = "955--962",
journal = "The American Journal of Medicine",
issn = "0002-9343",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "6",
}