Pirfenidone combined with corticosteroids in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus associated interstitial lung disease

Abstract

A 54-year-old woman (weight 45 kg) presented to our clinic complaining of a dry cough and exertional dyspnea for 1 week. She had been diagnosed with SLE and lupus nephritis at age 52, with manifestations including oral ulcers, lipsotrichia, butterfly erythema, high anti-nuclear antibody titers (with a speckled pattern at a 1:1,000 dilution), positive anti-double stranded DNA, hypocomplementemia C3, and a renal biopsy that indicated type III(A) lupus nephritis. The patient was a non-smoker.

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