Objective To describe clinical characteristics and laboratory findings of patients older than 15 years of age diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) that were admitted to hospital with fever and with a final diagnosis of infection, disease flare-up, or both. Methods A retrospective chart ...
Fever is a diagnostic challenge in the patient with lupus. Infections can mimic a lupus flare which further complicates the diagnostic approach. Moreover, immunosuppressive treatment of SLE may promote the development of infections and poor outcome. We report the case of a patient with SLE with ...
Persistent Fever and Pancytopenia: Lupus Flare vs Macrophage Activation Syndrome Introduction Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), first named in 1993, is a subcategory of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), characterized by prolonged fever, hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, liver dysfunction, and most...
persistentfevera...The Medicine Forum Volume 16Article 112015 Persistent Fever and Pancytopenia: Lupus Flare vs Macrophage Activation Syndrome Amy McGhee, MD Thomas Jefferson University ,*** Follow this and additional works at:http://jdc.jefferson.edu/tmf Part of the Medicine and Health Sciences Co...
Severe Upper Airway Obstruction From Cricoarytenoiditis as the Sole Presenting Manifestation of a Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Flare Upper airway obstruction due to laryngeal involvement is a known complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Laryngeal involvement typically accomp... A Karim,S Ahm...
Acute parvovirus B19 infection in connection with a flare of systemic lupus erythematodes in a female patient Background: Since its discovery parvovirus B19-infections could be linked to a growing variety of diseases. Besides the harmless exanthema erythema infecti... LS Modrow - 《Journal of Cli...
This is the first case report to highlight a unique set of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in DHF in this context.#A seventeen-year-old girl with lupus nephritis class IV developed a renal flare of lupus and subsequently developed DHF with bleeding per vaginum. Due to acute kidney ...
Otherwise unexplained highly elevated serum ferritin levels in patients with FUOs suggest rheumatic and inflammatory disorders, for example, systemic lupus erythematosus flare or malignancy. The findingsof mediastinal adenopathy combined with a highly elevated ESR and highly elevated serum ferritin levels ...
Severe Upper Airway Obstruction From Cricoarytenoiditis as the Sole Presenting Manifestation of a Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Flare Upper airway obstruction due to laryngeal involvement is a known complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Laryngeal involvement typically accomp... A Karim,S Ahm...
As IL-1 is a predominant cytokine involved in CAPS, TRAPS, MKD and FMF therapies, targeting this cytokine has demonstrated promising results.4Anti-interleukin 1 inhibitors are a first line treatment for patients with frequent recurrences of disease flare. Canakinumab has been demonstrated to be effi...