Late onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) after 50 -year -old is rare. We repor t a case of A 60 year-old woman referred to our hospi tal because of sever e myalgia and mi ld arthralgia together wi th pancytopenia wi thout other typical symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) . Posi tive di rect Coomb’s test revealed that anemia had autoimmune hemolytic nature and suppression of reticulocyte production was considered a clue of a process of bone marrow suppression which have been involv ed in the etiology of pancytopenia. Posi tivi ty for Anti - dsDNA antibodies led us to the diagnosis of late-onset SLE and there was marked improvement after prednisone administ ration. As late-onset SLE is rare and patients tend to show the typical symptoms le ss f requently, close attention should be focused on latent symptoms and immunological findings.
HF, M. (2017). A case of late Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with severe myalgia. The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 4(1), 24-26. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2017.5350
MLA
Mahmoud HF. "A case of late Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with severe myalgia". The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 4, 1, 2017, 24-26. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2017.5350
HARVARD
HF, M. (2017). 'A case of late Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with severe myalgia', The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 4(1), pp. 24-26. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2017.5350
VANCOUVER
HF, M. A case of late Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with severe myalgia. The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2017; 4(1): 24-26. doi: 10.21608/ejgg.2017.5350
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