Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous

We are herein reporting two female siblings with childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). The children were diagnosed as having SLE in reverse birth order at ages 2 and 6 years. Younger sister's initial symptoms were serositis, proteinuria, and hemolytic anemia with laboratory findi...

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Main Authors: ALAA NASRAWI, Heba Yihia Al Sunbly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Medicine, University of Kufa 2022-12-01
Series:مجلة الكوفة الطبية
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Online Access:https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/kmj/article/view/3671
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description We are herein reporting two female siblings with childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). The children were diagnosed as having SLE in reverse birth order at ages 2 and 6 years. Younger sister's initial symptoms were serositis, proteinuria, and hemolytic anemia with laboratory findings of hypocomplementemia and positive ANA/anti-dsDNA antibody. After 18 months, the older sister presented with high-grade fever, arthralgia proteinuria, oral mucous ulcer, butterfly rash, and positive ANA/anti-dsDNA antibody.
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spelling doaj-art-aff268fdf6c74b52a45a79fb0b8b93022025-08-20T02:35:43ZengFaculty of Medicine, University of Kufaمجلة الكوفة الطبية1993-517X2709-44642022-12-0118210.36330/kmj.v18i2.3671Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus ErythematousALAA NASRAWI0Heba Yihia Al Sunbly 1Department of pediatrics, University of Kufa, Faculty of medicine.Senior Pediatrician, Al Zahraa Teaching Hospital, Najaf Health Directorate. We are herein reporting two female siblings with childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). The children were diagnosed as having SLE in reverse birth order at ages 2 and 6 years. Younger sister's initial symptoms were serositis, proteinuria, and hemolytic anemia with laboratory findings of hypocomplementemia and positive ANA/anti-dsDNA antibody. After 18 months, the older sister presented with high-grade fever, arthralgia proteinuria, oral mucous ulcer, butterfly rash, and positive ANA/anti-dsDNA antibody. https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/kmj/article/view/3671Childhood Systemic Lupus ErythematosusSLE
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Heba Yihia Al Sunbly
Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous
مجلة الكوفة الطبية
Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
SLE
title Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous
title_full Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous
title_fullStr Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous
title_full_unstemmed Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous
title_short Two Sisters were Diagnosed with Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematous
title_sort two sisters were diagnosed with childhood systemic lupus erythematous
topic Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
SLE
url https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/kmj/article/view/3671
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