%0 Journal Article %@ 2326-5205 %A Hanly, JG %A Li, Q %A Su, L %A Urowitz, MB %A Gordon, C %A Bae, S-C %A Romero-Diaz, J %A Sanchez-Guerrero, J %A Bernatsky, S %A Clarke, AE %A Wallace, DJ %A Isenberg, DA %A Rahman, A %A Merrill, JT %A Fortin, PR %A Gladman, DD %A Bruce, IN %A Petri, M %A Ginzler, EM %A Dooley, MA %A Steinsson, K %A Ramsey-Goldman, R %A Zoma, AA %A Manzi, S %A Nived, O %A Jonsen, A %A Khamashta, MA %A Alarcón, GS %A van Vollenhoven, RF %A Aranow, C %A Mackay, M %A Ruiz-Irastorza, G %A Ramos-Casals, M %A Sam Lim, S %A Inanc, M %A Kalunian, KC %A Jacobsen, S %A Peschken, CA %A Kamen, DL %A Askanase, A %A Theriault, C %A Farewell, V %D 2019 %F discovery:10061149 %J Arthritis & Rheumatology %K Outcome, Psychosis, Systemic lupus erythematosus %N 2 %P 281-289 %T Psychosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061149/ %V 71 %X OBJECTIVE: To determine, in a multi-ethnic/racial, prospective SLE inception cohort, the frequency, attribution, clinical and autoantibody associations with lupus psychosis and the short and long-term outcome as assessed by physicians and patients. METHODS: Patients were evaluated annually for 19 neuropsychiatric (NP) events including psychosis. SLE disease activity 2000, SLICC/ACR damage index and SF-36 scores were collected. Time to event and linear regressions were used as appropriate. RESULTS: Of 1,826 SLE patients, 88.8% were female, 48.8% Caucasian. The mean±SD age was 35.1±13.3 years, disease duration 5.6±4.2 months and follow-up 7.4±4.5 years. There were 31 psychotic events in 28/1,826 (1.53%) patients and most [(26/28; 93%)] had a single event. In the majority of patients [20/25; (80%)] and events [28/31; (90%)] psychosis was attributed to SLE, usually within 3 years of SLE diagnosis. Positive associations [hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval [HR (95%CI)] with lupus psychosis were prior SLE NP events [3.59, (1.16, 11.14), male sex [3.0, (1.20, 7.50)], younger age at SLE diagnosis [(per 10 years younger), 1.45 (1.01, 2.07)] and African ancestry [4.59 (1.79, 11.76)]. By physician assessment most psychotic events resolved by the second annual visit following onset, in parallel with an improvement in patient reported SF-36 summary and subscale scores. CONCLUSION: Psychosis is an infrequent manifestation of NPSLE. Generally, it occurs early after SLE onset and has a significant negative impact on health status. As determined by patient and physician report, the short and long term outlook is good for most patients, though careful follow-up is required. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. %Z Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Arthritis & Rheumatology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American College of Rheumatology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.