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Polymyalgia rheumatica

Última revisão: 13 Nov 2025
Última atualização: 17 Nov 2023

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • shoulder/hip girdle stiffness
  • shoulder/hip girdle pain
  • rapid response to corticosteroids
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • acute onset
  • low-grade fever
  • anorexia
  • weight loss
  • malaise
  • depression
  • asthenia
  • oligoarticular arthritis
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Fatores de risco

  • age ≥50 years
  • giant cell arteritis (GCA)
  • female sex
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
  • C-reactive protein (CRP)
  • CBC
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • TSH
  • ultrasound
  • MRI
  • serum protein electrophoresis
  • serum creatine phosphokinase
  • rheumatoid factor
  • anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies
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Novos exames

  • interleukin (IL)-6
  • fluorodeoxyglucose F-18 PET scan

Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

initial presentation

CONTÍNUA

treatment-resistant or relapse or disease exacerbation

Colaboradores

Autores

Ari Weinreb, MD, PhD

Associate Chief of Rheumatology

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Los Angeles

CA

Declarações

AW declares that he has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

Dr Ari Weinreb would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Lynell Newmarch, a previous contributor to this topic.

Declarações

LN declares that she has no competing interests.

Revisores

Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD, FACR

Vice Chairman of Medicine for Education

Professor of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

Editor in Chief

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland

OH

Divulgaciones

BFM declares that he has no competing interests.

Kuntal Chakravarty, FRCP (London), FRCP (Glasgow), FRCP (Ireland), FACP (USA), FACR (USA)

Consultant Rheumatologist

BHRT University Hospital

Queen’s Hospital

Romford

UK

Divulgaciones

KC declares that he has no competing interests.

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Artículos principales

Nothnagl T, Leeb BF. Diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica. Drugs Aging. 2006;23:391-402. Resumen

Buttgereit F, Dejaco C, Matteson EL, et al. Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: A systematic review. JAMA. 2016 Jun 14;315(22):2442-58. Resumen

Dejaco C, Singh YP, Perel P, et al; European League Against Rheumatism; American College of Rheumatology. 2015 recommendations for the management of polymyalgia rheumatica: a European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology collaborative initiative. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2015;67:2569-2580.Texto completo  Resumen

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