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[Pancytopenia as the first manifestation of connective tissue disease]
A Alvarez1, T Fonseca, L Carvalho
1Serviço de Medicina I, Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, Lisboa.
Acta Medica Portuguesa
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report a case of a 25-year-old women admitted to the emergency room of Santa Maria Hospital with pancytopenia and fever. We describe the diagnostic work-up, laboratory findings, therapy, outcome and follow-up after discharge Lastly, we discuss aplastic anemia as a rare systemic lupus erythematosus complication, with only ten cases reported to date.