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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1996;39(4):562-566. Published online April 15, 1996.

Isolated Splenic Infarction in a Girl with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Kyung Ran KR Park¹, Hee Eun HE Lee¹, Yun Ae YA Jeon¹, Il Soo IS Ha¹, Hae Il HI Cheong¹, Joong Gon JG Kim¹, Yong Y Choi¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Splenic infarction is a rare disease and usually detected as a complication of SBE, atrial fibrillation, hemoglobinopathy, or myeloproliperative disorders. Although thrombotic event, such as deep vein, cerebral or renal thrombosis, is a frequent complication of SLE, there have been only a couple of cases documenting splenic infarction complicated in SLE. This is, to our knowledge, the first case report describing isolated splenic infarction in pediatric SLE. The splenic infarction was diagnosed on abdominal CT, 99mTc-RBC splenic scan, and abdominal USG, and resolved with anticoagulant therapy. And we discussed about the possibility of antiphospholipid syndrome as a cause of the infarction in this case.

Keywords :Splenic infarction, Pediatric SLE, Antiphospholipid syndrome