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Cardiac tamponade: an uncommon presenting feature of systemic lupus erythematosus (a case-based review)


Chadia Chourabi
Houaida Mahfoudhi
Sameh Sayhi
Rim Dhahri
Karima Taamallah
Sarra Chenik
Abdeddayem Haggui
Nadhem Hajlaoui
Dhaker Lahidheb
Ajili Faida
Nadia Ben Abdelhafidh
Bassem Louzir
Wafa Fehri

Abstract

Although pericarditis is the most prevalent cardiac involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cardiac tamponade is extremely infrequent notably as the first manifestation of the disease. Here we report the case of a 22-year-old woman presenting with cardiac tamponade as the initial presentation of SLE.


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