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Query: UMLS:C0024141 (
systemic lupus erythematosus
)
44,322
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Fatal pneumococcal sepsis due to functional asplenia in a child with
systemic lupus erythematosus
(
SLE
) and transient hyposplenism in a 2nd child during an acute flare of
SLE
are described. Splenic ultrasound examinations and radionuclide spleen scans in 11 other children with
SLE
were normal.
Splenic atrophy
and dysfunction is an uncommon but potentially fatal complication of
SLE
in childhood.
...
PMID:Functional asplenia in childhood onset systemic lupus erythematosus. 307 28
