Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report

Reactive arthritis is a post infectious multisystem illness which usually occurs after episodes of diarrhoea or urinary tract infections. It can cause many manifestations other than the musculoskeletal system including skin, urogenital system and eyes. However the central nervous system is only occa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Agarwal, Mukul P, Giri, Subhash, Sharma, Vishal, Bhardwaj, Gaurav
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19486539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-2-17
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Sumario:Reactive arthritis is a post infectious multisystem illness which usually occurs after episodes of diarrhoea or urinary tract infections. It can cause many manifestations other than the musculoskeletal system including skin, urogenital system and eyes. However the central nervous system is only occasionally involved. We discuss the case of a 32 year old male who presented with myelitis in association with reactive arthritis.

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