Estudo prospectivo de capilaroscopia periungueal em crianças e adolescentes com dermatomiosite e fenômeno de Raynaud

• Autor(a) principal: Piotto, Daniela Gerent Petry [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• dARK ID: ark:/48912/00130000079d1
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9593
• topic: Collagen diseases; Raynaud’s phenomenon; Adolescent; Child; Microscopic angioscopy; Nails/blood supply; Dermatomyositis; Raynaud disease; Angioscopia microscópica; Criança; Dermatomiosite; Doença de Raynaud; Unhas/irrigação sanguinea; Capilares

Objective: To evaluate prospectively the clinical features and nailfold capillaroscopy findings of a cohort of children and adolescents who presented Raynaud´s phenomenon without criteria for auto-immune rheumatic diseases. Methods: We included 40 children and adolescents with Raynaud’s phenomenon. Each patient was clinically evaluated and laboratory exams were performed, including antinuclear antibodies. Concomitantly we also performed a nailfold capillaroscopy by using a optical microscope with a magnification of 10 and 16X. Results: Thirty (75%) out of 40 patients were girls with a mean age of 14.6 years and mean follow-up time of 4.2 years. The mean age at disease onset was 10.4 years and the mean time until diagnosis 1.4 years. Thirteen out of 40 patients (32,5%) presented antinuclear antibodies positivity. Five (12.5%) patients had altered nailfold capillaroscopy: 4 inespecific microangiopathy and 1 scleroderma pattern. All patients were prospectively evaluated within a mean interval time of 1.6 years and 3 (7.5%) patients presented nailfold capillaroscopy alterations. Two patients that showed scleroderma pattern at the nailfold capillaroscopy presented during the follow-up mixed connective tissue disease and hypothyroidism, respectively. In a patient with normal nailfold capillaroscopy and auto-antibodies positivity systemic lupus erythematosus was diagnosed after 1 year of initial evaluation. Conclusions: Raynaud´s phenomenon remains primary in most cases, however nailfold capillaroscopy is useful to help in exclusion of auto-immune rheumatic diseases or other auto-immune diseases.