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Lupus eritematoso inducido por medicamentos - Síntomas

Síntomas:

Signos y exámenes:

El médico auscultará el tórax con un estetoscopio, con el cual se puede escuchar un roce pleural o un roce pericárdico. Se pueden presentar igualmente signos de pericarditis.

Un examen de la piel muestra una erupción característica.

El paciente habrá tomado un medicamento ligado al lupus inducido por fármacos.

Los exámenes que se pueden hacer abarcan:

Una radiografía de tórax puede mostrar signos de pleuritis o pericarditis y un ECG puede mostrar compromiso del corazón.

  • Fecha de revisión: 6/18/2007
  • Versión en inglés revisada por:Steve Lee, DO, Rheumatology Fellow, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
  • Traducción y localización realizada por: DrTango, Inc

Referencias

Harris ED, Budd RC, Genovese MC, Firestein GS, Sargent JS, Sledge CB. Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology. 7th ed. St. Louis, Mo: WB Saunders; 2005:1183, 1598.

Noble J. Textbook of Primary Care Medicine. 3rd ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby. 2001:1270.

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