Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – a rapidly terminal episode with shock and multi-organ failure
Keywords:
systemic lupus erythematosus, sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, multiorgan failure, leucothrombosisAbstract
The A.A. report the case of a 32 year-old woman, in whom systemic lupus erythematosus
had been diagnosed 5 years previously. The
patient had been in a relatively quiescent phase of her disease when she suddenly died from
fulminant uncontrolled shock and multi-organ failure.
An SLE disease exacerbation or sepsis, in
which the inflammatory process induced multiple leucothombotic phenomena, may have been
responsible for the clinical evolution observed.
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