Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

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 Haemophilus influenzae type f epiglott...

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Autores principales: Charuvanij, Sirirat, Houghton, Kristin M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19878586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-7-19
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description 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 Haemophilus influenzae type f epiglottitis as the initial presentation of SLE in childhood.
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spelling pubmed-27779032009-11-17 Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Charuvanij, Sirirat Houghton, Kristin M Pediatr Rheumatol Online J Case Report 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 Haemophilus influenzae type f epiglottitis as the initial presentation of SLE in childhood. BioMed Central 2009-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2777903/ /pubmed/19878586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-7-19 Text en Copyright © 2009 Charuvanij and Houghton; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Charuvanij, Sirirat
Houghton, Kristin M
Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_fullStr Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full_unstemmed Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_short Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_sort acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19878586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-7-19
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