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Table 1 Frequency of selected presenting clinical features of childhood-onset SLE

From: Cardiac tamponade as the initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report and review of the literature

 

Balkaran et al [5]

Spinosa et al. [6]

Abdwani et al. [7]

Hiraki et al. [8]

Agarwal et al. [9]

Gulay et al. [10]

Country

Trinidad

Brazil

Oman

Canada

India

Phillipines

Sample size

33

47

50

256

70

78

Clinical features (%)

      

Malar rash

36

32

-

61

57

65

Musculoskeletal

70

32

76

61

66

41

Renal disease

64

38

64

45

77

63

Fever

76

34

62

39

94

-

Weight loss

-*

26

52

29

30

-

Ulcers

-

9

-

33

-

54

Alopecia

-

17

36

22

46

40

Pleuritis/ Pleural effusion

9

17

26

12

3

14

Pericarditis/ Pericardial effusion

24

4

22

12

3

15

Neuropsychiatric

-

36

18

16

21

31

  1. * denotes no data was presented for that clinical feature.