Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Coagulation tests
Renal biopsy
Antinuclear antibodies
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein
Lipid profile
Comentario: Por el grupo etario, ser mujer, proteinuria (aunque no sea nefrtica) con sedimento
activo y lesiones cutneas, el primer diagnstico a sospechar es LEG, por lo que, de los estudios
enumerados, opcin C son los ms adecuados como escrutinio. La biopsia renal se podra realizar
en algn momento, pero no es un estudio de manera inicial. La VSG y la PCR se pueden pedir de
inicio, pero son totalmente inespecficos.
2. After getting the lab results, you decide to start treatment with prednisone and
azathioprine. However, after 6 weeks with this therapy, the patients renal function worsens
(requiring dyalisis) and proteinuria increases to 5.9 grams in 24 hours. The edema becomes
more pronounced and she has erythematous lesions in her cheeks and nasal dorsum. Which
is your best therapeutic option?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Oral dexamethasone
Doubling azathioprine dose
Cyclophosphamide 500 mg IV
Methotrexate 25 mg/wk
Total anticoagulation with heparin
3. You decide to perform a renal biopsy. Which is the most probable result, according to
prevalence?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
Class I
Class III
Class V
Class IV
Class I + VI
Class I
30%
2-5%
Less than 1%
55-60%
95%
Comentario: aproximadamente 30% de los sujetos con LEG que presentan actividad renal, llegarn
a terapia de reemplazo renal, sin importar el tratamiento recibido.
CASE 2
1. A 6-year-old boy is taken by his parents to the Emergency Room because he has had fever
for the past week, along with erythematous tongue, fissured lips, adenopathies and chest
pain. The ecocardiogram shows aneurysmatic dilatations in his coronaries. Which is the
most probable diagnosis?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Imunoglobulin
Plasmapheresis
Methotrexate
Azathioprine
Abatacept
Indometacin
Naproxen
Aspirin
Ibuprofen
Ketoprofen
Intestinal vasculitis
Arrythmias
Acute myocardial infarction
Myocarditis
All of the above
Comentario: las arriba enumeradas pueden ser todas complicaciones de Enfermedad de Kawasaki.