Disseminated Gonococcal Arthritis Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Gedalia A*, Levkowitz E, Daven

Abstract

Signs and symptoms of gonococcal infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) are overlapping and sometimes difficult to distinguish from the manifestations of SLE itself. We are reporting on a patient with a recent SLE flare who developed disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) as a result of the nature of SLE and the management of a flare.