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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
versão On-line ISSN 1561-3046
Resumo
BERMUDEZ GARCELL, Alejandro Jesús; SERRANO GAMEZ, Nilvia Bienvenida; TERUEL GINES, Rolando e LEYVA MONTERO, María de los Ángeles. Dermatological manifestations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a 5-year study. Rev. cuban. med. mil. [online]. 2023, vol.52, n.2 Epub 01-Jun-2023. ISSN 1561-3046.
Introduction:
Dermatological manifestations constitute a fundamental group within extra-articular morbidity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Its importance lies in the high frequency of presentation and in the diagnostic role of the disease.
Objective:
To describe the dermatological manifestations identified in patients diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Methods:
Basic, descriptive, cross-sectional research, whose universe was 87 patients diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology, treated during the period June 2017 - June 2022 in the rheumatology outpatient clinic of the Metropolitan Clinic. from the city of Riobamba. The sample was made up of 72 patients to whom a survey was applied to obtain information related to the general characteristics of the patients and the disease.
Results:
Average age of 40.59 years, predominance of patients between 40 and 49 years (30.56%), female (95.83%) and with evolution time between 1 and 5 years (62.50%). 86.11% of the patients reported dermatological manifestations, malar rash (74.19%) and livedo reticularis (33.87%) were the most frequently present. 65.30% of the cases used sun protection, being sunscreen the most used (61.70%).
Conclusions:
Dermatological manifestations are frequent in the evolutionary course of lupus, predominantly malar rash, livedo reticularis and alopecia.
Palavras-chave : alopecia; exanthema; livedo reticularis; lupus erythematosus, systemic; dermatological manifestations..