Prevalencia de derrame pericárdico en pacientes de 20-40 años con lupus eritematoso sistémico en el Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo en el último trimestre del año 2019.

Abstract

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune pathology that usually presents multiple complications in different target organs, including pericardial involvement. The objective is to establish the prevalence of pericardial effusion in patients aged 20-40 years with systemic lupus erythematosus at Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in the last quarter of 2019. The applied methodology is descriptive, observational; cross-sectional and retrospective, based on the collection of data from medical records in patients diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus from the rheumatology service of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital. Results: 442 patients were analyze within the study, obtaining as a result a distribution according to sex, female of 90%, while male sex represented 10%. The most frequent age fluctuated between 36-40 years; also associating the risk factors of pericardial effusion with age does not influence the severity of the effusion. Similarly, we obtained that 25% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus had a higher prevalence of pericardial effusion. On the other hand, gender represents 60% male and 21% female prevalence of pericardial effusion, despite the fact that lupus erythematosus is more associated with the female gender. According to the severity of the effusion in the male gender, there is an equality of 42% that the pericardial effusion is moderate or severe, unlike the female, only 24% of the volume of the pericardial effusion is classified as severe, concluding that the male presents an increase in severity while there is a higher incidence of cases.