Ortega ECR, Saldarriaga RLM, Delgado QLA, Ríos GBBE

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The incidence of chronic infection with hepatitis C virus in a patient with rheumatic disease is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge because the medications used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematous are hepatotoxic. We report the case of a patient with rheumatoid artritis overlap systemic lupus erythematosus with positive serology for hepatitis C, who were treated with interferon alpha and the presence of rheumatic disease activity was refractory to treatment, being used Anti-TNF etanercept with resolution of symptoms.

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