5TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY, KOLKATA, 29TH & 30TH SEPTEMBER 2007

Suhas Ganguli, Rakesh Mondal, Madhumita Nandi,, Supratim Datta, J B Ghosh
Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic, Department of Pediatrics
IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata

Objective
To study the patient profile of Juvenile SLE patients attending a pediatric Rheumatology clinic.

Methods and Results
Retrospective analysis of all patients with a diagnosis of SLE attending a Pediatric Rheumatology special clinic of a tertiary care teaching center of eastern India. A total of 11 cases were given a diagnosis of SLE. Most of them were aged between 8-12 years. Only one child was 3 years old. Most common involvement was joints followed by kidneys and skin. One child had a rare presentation with chorea and microphonia.

Conclusion
SLE constitutes about 4% of childhood rheumatologic cases. Their complete clinical and investigational work up is often hampered by financial constraints. More long term population based follow up studies are needed to get a clearer picture of this condition in children from this part of the world.

5th National Conference of Pediatric Rheumatology - Conference Abstracts.Pediatric Oncall [serial online] 2007 [cited 15 December 2007(Supplement 12)];4. Available from:
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juvinile_systemic_lupus.asp