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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JPSIM</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine</journal-title>
        <abbrev-title>J Pak Soc Intern Med</abbrev-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="print">2709-8729</issn>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2710-0804</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.70302/jpsim.v4i1.2312</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Case Report</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Gastrointestinal Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Lupus Enteritis</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Raees</surname>
            <given-names>Aimen</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>aimenraees19001@import.invalid</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Parkash</surname>
            <given-names>Om</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Sohail</surname>
            <given-names>Zahabia</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
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        <institution>The Aga Khan University Hospital</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1">*Correspondence: Aimen Raees (aimenraees19001@import.invalid)</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="2023-02-13">
        <day>13</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>56</fpage>
      <lpage>59</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-10-22">
          <day>22</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2022-11-23">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2023 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2023</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
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          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with a heterogenous mode of presentation and clinical course. We present a case of a young female with an atypical presentation of SLE. A young woman with no known prior comorbidities presenting with the history of chronic diarrhea, vomiting and weight loss, followed by generalized weakness. Extensive workup was done and she was diagnosed with lupus enteritis based on history, laboratory investigations and findings on imaging. She was given pulse therapy to which she responded very well. The case describes the importance of high clinical suspicion and timely intervention as well as adds to the evidence on a rare clinical entity- lupus enteritis.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>SLE</kwd>
        <kwd>Lupus enteritis</kwd>
        <kwd>autoimmune disorders</kwd>
        <kwd>chronic diarrhea</kwd>
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