Shrinking Lung Syndrome – A rare cause of recurrent dyspnoea in SLE / Hazlyna Baharuddin … [et al.]

• Main Authors: Baharuddin, Hazlyna, Mohd Zim, Mohd Arif, Rosman, Azmillah, Mohd Zain, Mollyza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Selangor 2017
• Subjects: Specialties of internal medicine; Diseases of the lungs
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30064/1/AJ_HAZLYNA%20BAHARUDDIN%20JCHS%20B%2017.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30064/; https://jchs-medicine.uitm.edu.my/images/manuscript/vol2issue1/case-report/p35-38/07JCHS-28-Case-Report.pdf

Here we present a 24-year-old lady with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) whom we diagnosed with shrinking lung syndrome (SLS), a rare manifestation of SLE. The initial SLE manifestation was alopecia, thrombocytopenia, serositis and vasculitis. Anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), anti-double stranded DNA...