Introduction:

Rheumatic diseases are characterized by the presence of articular and extra-articular manifestations. Within the latter, one of the least studied systems.

Objective:

To characterize the gynecological manifestations that most frequently occur in the course of rheumatic diseases.

Methods:

A basic, non-experimental, descriptive and longitudinal research was carried out that included a total of 117 female patients diagnosed with various rheumatic diseases according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology. The sample was made up of 108 patients. During the study, the incidence of gynecological manifestations in rheumatic patients and the type of manifestation that is most frequently reported were identified.

Result:

average age of 61.19 years, predominance of patients of urban origin (61.11%) and with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (61.11%). 39.81% of the patients reported disease evolution time between three and five years. 62.04% of the patients presented some type of extra-articular gynecological manifestation. Vaginal secretion (50.75%), vulvovaginitis (25.37%), cervicitis (20.90%) and dyspareunia (14.92%) were the ones with the highest frequency of presentation.

Conclusions:

Gynecological manifestations are frequently found in patients with rheumatic diseases. Gynecological manifestations of inflammatory origin were those with the highest frequency of presentation and were more frequent in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematosus. In systemic sclerosis, neoplastic manifestations were the most frequent.

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