| Literature DB >> 29593002 |
Naveen Kumar1, Deepanjali Surendran1, Chanaveerappa Bammigatti1.
Abstract
A young female in her early 20s presented with low-grade fever for 1 month, puffiness of face and abdominal distension for 15 days. Evaluation revealed pancytopenia with normocellular marrow, hypocomplementaemia and Coomb's positive haemolytic anaemia. She had angioedema with laryngospasm and worsening facial oedema which had dramatic response to steroids. Further workup lead to a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus with neuropsychiatric involvement. Treatment with pulse steroids and cyclophosphamide resulted in dramatic improvement of her symptoms with no recurrence of angioedema during her follow-up visits. © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.Entities:
Keywords: immunology; systemic lupus erythematosus
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29593002 PMCID: PMC5878267 DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2018-224222
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMJ Case Rep ISSN: 1757-790X