Abstract

ALONSO GARCIA, Alicia et al. Ophthalmologic manifestations in patient with rheumatoid arthritis. AMC [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.4, pp.469-478. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: rheumatoid arthritis is the prototype of systemic autoinmune disease. It affects mainly synovial articulations, with less frequency extrarticular tissues. When it affects the organ of the vision, it is part of important ophthalmological manifestations. Objective: to identify the ophthalmological manifestations found in patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Methods: a descriptive transversal study was carried out in Dr. Octavio de la Concepción y la Pedraja hospital in Camagüey from January to December 2015. The universe was composed of 55 patients remitted to the service of Ophthalmology, coming from Rheumatology consultation diagnosed with AR who presented ophthalmological manifestations and that fulfilled the defined inclusion approaches for the author. The data was picked up in a survey validated by experts. Variables of clinical characterization were considered as: ophthalmological manifestations and time of evolution of the rheumatic illness and age and sex were biological. For the the data processing descriptive statistics was used for the distribution of absolute and relative frequencies. Results: dry queratoconjuntivitis was the most frequent ophthalmological manifestation, followed by Sjögren’s syndrome in order of frequency by and epiescleritis. Uveitis, escleritis and cataract were less frequent. Female sex prevailed; patients between 40 and 59 years were more affected, as well as those that had between 5 and 9 years of evolution of the rheumatic disease. Conclusions: ophthalmological manifestations of the AR were frequent, dry queratoconjuntivitis, the syndrome of Sjögren and the epiescleritis stood out. A meticulous and multidisciplinary study of the ill person is required; for the early diagnosis, appropriate therapy and prevention of the ocular complications that can end up being disabling.

Keywords : EYE MANIFESTATIONS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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