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Case Reports
. 1975 Oct;34(5):457-60.
doi: 10.1136/ard.34.5.457.

Lupus cor pulmonale with electron microscope and immunofluroescent antibody studies

P P Yeo, R Sinniah
Case Reports

Lupus cor pulmonale with electron microscope and immunofluroescent antibody studies

P P Yeo et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 1975 Oct.

Abstract

A case of systemic lupus erythemaosus with an unusual complication of pulmonary hypertension leading to cor pulmonale is reported. Lung biopsy showed an interstitial pneumonitis with pulmonary vascular narrowing causing pulmonary hypertension. These changes appeared to be immunologically mediated by the utilization of IgG and C3. Microtubular virus-like particles were present in the endothelial cell cytoplasm of both lung and kidney.

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