Policondritis recidivante: presentación de un caso / Recurrent polychondritis: A case report
Rev. cuba. reumatol
;
20(3): e635, sept.-dic. 2018. graf
Article
in Spanish
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| ID: biblio-1093794
RESUMEN
Paciente del sexo femenino de 31 años de edad, antecedentes de buena salud y madre diabética. Acudió a consulta por presentar condritis biauricular y nasal, artralgias y disnea progresiva de unas 3 semanas de evolución. Por su cuadro clínico bastante típico, así como por los resultados de los estudios complementarios, se diagnostica policondritis recidivante (PR), se prescriben esteroides y tratamiento convencional para la insuficiencia respiratoria crónica (IRC)con evolución tórpida a pesar del tratamiento(AU)
ABSTRACT
A 31-year-old female patient, with healthy medical history and a diabetic mother, attended the clinic for biatrial and nasal chondritis, arthralgia and progressive dyspnea of about three weeks' evolution. Due to its typically clinical picture, as well as to the results of complementary studies, recurrent polychondritis (PR) is diagnosed, steroids and conventional treatment are prescribed for chronic respiratory failure (CRF). Despite treatment, the patient had torpid evolution(AU)
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Main subject:
Polychondritis, Relapsing
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Respiratory Insufficiency
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Dyspnea
Limits:
Adult
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Female
/
Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. cuba. reumatol
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Cuba
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Pediátrico Docente Sur Antonio María Beguez Cesar/CU
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