Introduction
SLE is a complex autoimmune chronic inflammatory disorder with an extensive cascade of symptoms, the disease can involve the kidney, lung, nervous system and heart (1). Abdominal pain does have a wide differential diagnosis, however, gastrointestinal involvement is not unusual in SLE (2, 3). A lot of causes of abdominal pain have been described in lupus patients such as lupus enteritis drug reactions and infections due to steroids (4, 5). In addition, the likelihood of SLE as a contributing factor in jejunal diverticulosis has been reported (6).
An intussusception itself as a complication or presenting symptom of SLE is rare, until now there are no more than seven cases have been reported in SLE (4, 6). Two of those cases it was secondary to mesenteric vacuities and five cases had an intussusception as an initial presentation of SLE (7). In this case, we are reporting a case of SLE with intussusception as the initial presentation.