Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

doi:10.1186/1546-0096-7-19

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Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Sirirat Charuvanij¹^,2 and Kristin M Houghton¹^,2

¹Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Pediatric Rheumatology 2009, 7:19doi:10.1186/1546-0096-7-19


Published:	31 October 2009

Abstract

We report a case of a 5-year old girl, who initially presented with acute epiglottitis, sepsis and multi-organ failure. She was subsequently diagnosed as having Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. To the best of our knowledge, this article describes the first case of Haemophilus influenzae type f epiglottitis as the initial presentation of SLE in childhood.