All issues > Volume 25(11); 1982

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1982;25(11):1185-1189. Published online November 30, 1982.

A Case of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Dong Hwan Cho, Sook Kyeung Zung, Zun Ho Kim, Byung Yun Chung, Won Jae Park

¹Department of Pediatrics, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

A Case of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus was presented concerning the clinical wanifesta- tions and laboratory findings with reference to literatures. The patient was a 15-years old Korean High school girl who was admitted to this hospital on May, 19th, 1981, with the chief complaints of pain of both knee joints, skin rashes, paticularly characteristic butterfly rashes on malar area of face and fever. She was diagnosed with above clinical findings and laboratory findings of positive L.E. cell and positive A.N.A test. She was readmitted to this hospital with the complaints of fever, respiratory difficulty and anorexia on 3rd, Dec., 1981. We tried with Prednisone, A.S.A., Isoniazid with general supportive measures to her that resulted in improvement of her clinical and laboratory findings on observation thorough this hospital O.P.D. since discharge. .

Keywords :Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antinuclear antibody, Lupus erythematous cell.