Seguimiento ambulatorio de pacientes con lupus en una unidad de enfermedades autoinmunes sistémicas
- Aguilar Huergo, Sergio
- Vargas Hitos, José Antonio
- Navarrete Navarrete, N.
- Zamora Pasadas, Mónica
- Sabio Sánchez, José Mario
- Jiménez Alonso, Juan Francisco
ISSN: 0365-7965
Any de publicació: 2013
Tom: 98
Número: 789
Pàgines: 70-73
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Actualidad médica
Resum
Objectives: To describe the symptoms referred by the patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) during their ambulatory follow-up by an Autoinmune Disease Unit (ADU), the relationship between them and SLE itself or with other clinic entities and the need to refer lupus patients to other specialists. Methods: We performed a descriptive analysis during 5 months that included 112 patients with SLE with ambulatory follow-up by an ADU. We assessed the symptomatology suffered by the patients since the last visit, related or not to SLE, and the prevalence of patients referred to other specialists. Results: Eighty (71.4%) patients had symptoms no explainable by SLE, mainly due to arthralgias secondary to osteoarthrosis and anxiety-depressive syndrome. Thirty-two (23.5%) patients had symptoms related to SLE, the most frequent of which were articular flare in 10 (8.3%) patients, lupus nephritis in 8 (7.1%) and skin flare in 5 (4.4%). Finally, ten (8.3%) patients were referred to other specialists. Conclusions: During the ambulatory follow-up of patients with SLE in an ADU, the frequency of consultations for symptoms and illnesses no related to SLE may be higher than those secondary to SLE, highlighting the need of a global and multidisciplinary management of these patients.