Rheumatoid vasculitis. Study of a case

Jacqueline Beatriz Bastidas Soria; María Fernanda Suárez Toledo; Verónica Maribel Hurtado Hurtado; Nathali Viviana Calderón Martínez

2018, Number 1

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Rev Cub de Reu 2018; 20 (1)

Rheumatoid vasculitis. Study of a case

Bastidas SJB, Suárez TMF, Hurtado HVM, Calderón MNV

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ABSTRACT

Present a case, with rheumatoid arthritis of several years of evolution, that after leaving the treatment presented an exacerbation of the activity of the disease, accompanied by a general syndrome and dermal and neurological lesions caused by a leukocytoclastic vasculitis, it was necessary to update the treatment with methotrexate and boluses of methylprednisolone obtaining a favorable response demonstrated when the activity of the disease disappeared and cicatrization of the ulcerous lesions.