Fulminant lupus pneumonitis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly

Fulminant lupus pneumonitis is a rare complication of SLE. We report a case of 75 years‐old male patient with SLE who developed pneumonia and severe respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Refractory respiratory distress complicating noninfectious fulminant lupus pneumonitis did not re...

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Autores principales: Helali, Wiem, El Euch, Mounira, Sassi, Cyrine, Kefi, Asma, Ben Hamida, Fethi, Ben Abdelghani, Khaoula, Turki, Sami, Abderrahim, Ezzedine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9949358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6966
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author Helali, Wiem
El Euch, Mounira
Sassi, Cyrine
Kefi, Asma
Ben Hamida, Fethi
Ben Abdelghani, Khaoula
Turki, Sami
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description Fulminant lupus pneumonitis is a rare complication of SLE. We report a case of 75 years‐old male patient with SLE who developed pneumonia and severe respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Refractory respiratory distress complicating noninfectious fulminant lupus pneumonitis did not respond to methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobulin treatment.
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spelling pubmed-99493582023-02-24 Fulminant lupus pneumonitis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly Helali, Wiem El Euch, Mounira Sassi, Cyrine Kefi, Asma Ben Hamida, Fethi Ben Abdelghani, Khaoula Turki, Sami Abderrahim, Ezzedine Clin Case Rep Case Report Fulminant lupus pneumonitis is a rare complication of SLE. We report a case of 75 years‐old male patient with SLE who developed pneumonia and severe respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Refractory respiratory distress complicating noninfectious fulminant lupus pneumonitis did not respond to methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobulin treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9949358/ /pubmed/36846186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6966 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Helali, Wiem
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Sassi, Cyrine
Kefi, Asma
Ben Hamida, Fethi
Ben Abdelghani, Khaoula
Turki, Sami
Abderrahim, Ezzedine
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title Fulminant lupus pneumonitis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly
title_full Fulminant lupus pneumonitis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly
title_fullStr Fulminant lupus pneumonitis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly
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title_short Fulminant lupus pneumonitis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9949358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6966
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