Resumen

BASTIDAS SORIA, Jacqueline Beatriz; SUAREZTOLEDO, María Fernanda; HURTADO HURTADO, Verónica Maribel  y  CALDERON MARTINEZ, Nathali Viviana. Rheumatoid vasculitis. Study of a case. Rev Cuba Reumatol [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.1, pp. 1-6. ISSN 1817-5996.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1186869.

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.

Palabras clave : rheumatoid vasculitis; small vessel vasculitis; leukocytoclastic vasculitis; rheumatoid arthritis; rheumatoid disease.

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