Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
<p>Abstract</p> <p>We report a case of a 5-year old girl, who initially presented with acute epiglottitis, sepsis and multi-organ failure. She was subsequently diagnosed as having Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. To the best of our knowledge, this article describes the first case of &...
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2009-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | <p>Abstract</p> <p>We report a case of a 5-year old girl, who initially presented with acute epiglottitis, sepsis and multi-organ failure. She was subsequently diagnosed as having Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. To the best of our knowledge, this article describes the first case of <it>Haemophilus influenzae </it>type f epiglottitis as the initial presentation of SLE in childhood.</p> |
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| Item Description: | 10.1186/1546-0096-7-19 1546-0096 |