Abstract

BOTERO-ECHEVERRI, Juan Camilo; MURIEL-HURTADO, Carlos Mauricio  and  ARTETA-CUETO, Ariel Antonio. A dangerous relation: Systemic lupus erythematosus disease and Kikuchi Fujimoto disease. CES Med. [online]. 2016, vol.30, n.2, pp.225-230. ISSN 0120-8705.

Abstract Kikuchi disease, also known as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, isa benign and self-limited condition that mainly affects young women andresolve without treatment within six months of symptoms. It was first describedin Japan in 1972 and is more common in Asian population. We report the case of a woman of 48 years who consults for abdominal pain, myalgia, and cervical lymphadenopathy on physical examination. He found himself in the presence of antinuclear antibodies paraclinical 1: 640 positive DNA double chain associated with complement consumption and positive cardiolipin antibodies We perform cervical node biopsy that showed the presence of cortical necrosis and histiocytes and lymphocytes population. When you start handling steroid and chloroquine, a high frank and subsequent improvement was observed, continuing control rheumatology and internal medicine.

Keywords : Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease; Necrotising lymphadenitis; Systemic lupus erythematosus.

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