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LUPUS
Volume 23, Issue 14, Pages 1533-1536Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0961203314552461
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension; systemic lupus erythematosus; corticosteroid treatment; methylprednisolone pulse therapy
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A 35-year-old female patient was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) by right heart catheterization (RHC) in the 3rd month of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) duration with high disease activity. Through methylprednisolone pulse therapy, she got total recovery from PAH proven by repeat catheterization and follow-ups. This is the first simultaneously diagnosed, totally recovered, gold standard-proved SLE-PAH case ever reported in the literature. We would like to share this successful case, and at the same time, we want to highlight the relationship between presentation of PAH and active disease manifestations of SLE patients, and to discuss how immune suppressive treatment could benefit this subset of patients.
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