Montiel-Esparza AC, Sosa-Morales V, Bullón-Alcalá SR, Zavaleta-Martínez M

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

In the literature there have been reported multiple cases of persons who have at the same time the diagnosis of Takayasu’s arteritis and ankylosing spodylitis, these inflammatory diseases with inconclusive autoimmune component. This is the reason why in this article we present the case of a man that had been under treatment for ankylosing spondylitis confirmed by HLA-B27, who also had vitiligo. One week before his death, patient suffered precordial pain with treatment at hospital under vasodilator drug. During the intake of food in a restaurant patient had sudden respiratory distress and tegumentary pallor, arriving at hospital care with the presumptive diagnosis of food poisoning that caused death, for which a necropsy was performed and ruled out this diagnostic possibility.