title: Acute epiglottitis as the initial presentation of pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
abstract: We report a case of a 5-year old girl, who initially presented with acute epiglottitis, sepsis and multi-organ failure. She was subsequently diagnosed as having Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. To the best of our knowledge, this article describes the first case of Haemophilus influenzae type f epiglottitis as the initial presentation of SLE in childhood.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. khoughton@cw.bc.ca.
authors.forename: Sirirat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Charuvanij
authors.forename: Kristin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Houghton