Abstract

PERTUZ REBOLLEDO, María Milena et al. Rheumatoid vasculitis as an extra articular manifestation in two cases. Rev. argent. reumatolg. [online]. 2022, vol.33, n.2, pp.97-100. ISSN 0327-4411.  http://dx.doi.org/10.47196/rar.v33i2.619.

Rheumatoid vasculitis is a rare inflammatory process that confers significant morbidity and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA); it has an incidence of 0.7 to 5.4% of RA cases and up to 40% mortality at five years, making it the most serious of all the extra-articular manifestations of RA1,2.

It is characterized by the development of necrotizing vasculitis, it typically occurs in male patients with long-standing seropositive RA, erosive nodular, smokers and generally has a poor prognosis.

A series of cases is presented, male and female with RA and extra-articular manifestations, digital necrosis and multiorgan system involvement, interpreted as rheumatoid vasculitis, undergoing treatment with immunosuppressants.

Keywords : rheumatoid arthritis; necrotizing vasculitis; mononeuropathy; immunosuppression.

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