Case Report
Year: 2016 | Month: December | Volume: 6 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 347-350
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patient Presenting With Acute Pulmonary Edema as the Initial Hospital Presentation
Aparna Patange1, Shivaraj Afzalpurkar2, Piyush Prajapati2, Omkar Patil2
1Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, KIMSDU Karad. 2Resident, Dept of Medicine, KIMSDU Karad.
Corresponding Author: Shivaraj Afzalpurkar
ABSTRACT
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs more commonly in women in the age group between 16 to 60 years. SLE most commonly affects skin but heart and cardiopulmonary circulation can also be significantly affected. Acute non cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a rare initial presentation of SLE.
Key words: systemic lupus erethymetosus, pulmonary edema, non cardiogenic.