Successful treatment for neuromyelitis optica with systemic lupus erythematosus

To the editor:Systemic lupus erythematosus（SLE）can have multiple neuropsychiatric manifestations,which also are main reasons of disability and death.Neuromyelitis optica（Devic’s syndrome/NMO）is one of the rarest and most serious neurological manifestations,with limited cases reported.;Here,we report a patient who developed neuromyelitis optica with SLE.In April 2009,this 19-year-old woman presented with Raynaud’s phenomenon and left eye sore and gradually vision losing.Visual evoked potential and ophthalmoscopy evaluation revealed evidences of optic neuritis.The laboratory testing showed persisting thrombocytopenia,positive antinuclear antibody（ANA）in serum