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Form of B12 Deficiency Affecting the Central Nervous System May Be New Autoimmune Disease

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Researchers have identified a form of B12 deficiency caused by autoantibodies that specifically affects the central nervous system.

Discovered while studying a puzzling case of one patient with inexplicable neurological systems, the same autoantibody was detected in a small percentage of healthy individuals and was nearly four times as prevalent in patients with neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Form of B12 Deficiency in CNS May Be New Autoimmune Disease (medscape.com)

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