Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature

Acute lupus pneumonitis is an uncommon but life threatening condition associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. We report the case of a young female who presented to us with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to acute lupus pneumonitis as initial presenting manifestation of lupus. She...

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Autores principales: Singh, Akashdeep, Kaur, Rupinder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22919168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.99115
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description Acute lupus pneumonitis is an uncommon but life threatening condition associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. We report the case of a young female who presented to us with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to acute lupus pneumonitis as initial presenting manifestation of lupus. She was managed with non-invasive ventilation and pulse steroids, with which she had dramatic improvement.
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spelling pubmed-34248682012-08-23 Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature Singh, Akashdeep Kaur, Rupinder Lung India Case Report Acute lupus pneumonitis is an uncommon but life threatening condition associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. We report the case of a young female who presented to us with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to acute lupus pneumonitis as initial presenting manifestation of lupus. She was managed with non-invasive ventilation and pulse steroids, with which she had dramatic improvement. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3424868/ /pubmed/22919168 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.99115 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature
title Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature
title_full Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature
title_short Non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: A case report and review of literature
title_sort non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lupus pneumonitis: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424868/
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