Diagnóstico de las enfermedades reumáticas mediante el estudio del líquido sinovial Cuenca 1998

Abstract

The work that follows is a study of synovial fluid, which is an extension of the clinical examination of patients with inflammatory joint disease, and contributes significantly to diangóstico of rheumatic diseases. This research is descriptive, is to study and classify the object synovial fluid according to their macroscopic and microscopic findings crystal characteristics, as well as related diagnostic variables age and sex. We worked with hospitalized patients with synovitis and outpatient Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital and Social Security of Cuenca, in 1998. 72 liquid were studied, 34.7 percent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 20.8 percent with arthritis, 13.9 percent drop and the remainder from diseases such as osteoarthritis, septic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus; being the most affected sex male 59.7 percent and the most prevalent age 50 to 69 years followed by 30 and 39. In most arthropathy examination findings of sinnovial fluid may indicate the intensity of joint inflammation, crystals of monosodium urate and increased white blood cell count to fifty thousand per milliliter help the clinician to confirm the diagnosis of gout and septic arthritis respectively.