Abstract

FLORES, Jelimar et al. Digital stenosing tenosynovitis in patients of a University Hospital. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.1, pp.29-37. ISSN 1690-3293.

Tenosynovitis is the thickening of the lining around the tendons of fingers resulting in a condition stricturing, or spring/ trigger (ST) finger. Objective: Analyze the tenosynovitis in patients who come to the Rheumatology consult of the "Dr. Adolfo Prince Lara" hospital. Materials and methods: Quantitative, correlational and cross-sectional research. Population composed of 285 patients, sample of 105 patients with clinical diagnosis of tenosynovitis. Results: Average age of 5 5.32. 80% were female. Predominant occupation was home offices with 71.43%. Medical conditions associated: Diabetes Mellitus 61.19%, hypertension 49.22% and rheumatologic: 48.49% osteoarthritis, D´Quervain Tendinitis 46.77%. Anatomic location more frequent the ring finger (45.71%) followed by the thumb finger (23.81%; 25 cases). Clinical diagnosis in 100% of cases . Treatment most used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) with infiltration 75.24%, remission in 80% of patients. Conclusion: Tenosynovitis represents more than one third of the patients who come to the rehumatology consultation, mainly affects adult contemporary, female sex, diabetic, occupation offices of home or workers, being the ring finger the most affected, with 80% of remission after local infiltration and NSAIDs.

Keywords : Tenosynovitis; De Quervain disease; rheumatoid arthritis.

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