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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Autores principales: Agarwal, Mukul P, Giri, Subhash, Sharma, Vishal, Bhardwaj, Gaurav
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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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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author Agarwal, Mukul P
Giri, Subhash
Sharma, Vishal
Bhardwaj, Gaurav
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Giri, Subhash
Sharma, Vishal
Bhardwaj, Gaurav
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description 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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spelling pubmed-26947772009-06-11 Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report Agarwal, Mukul P Giri, Subhash Sharma, Vishal Bhardwaj, Gaurav Int Arch Med 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 occasionally involved. We discuss the case of a 32 year old male who presented with myelitis in association with reactive arthritis. BioMed Central 2009-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2694777/ /pubmed/19486539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-2-17 Text en Copyright © 2009 Agarwal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Agarwal, Mukul P
Giri, Subhash
Sharma, Vishal
Bhardwaj, Gaurav
Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
title Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
title_full Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
title_fullStr Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
title_full_unstemmed Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
title_short Concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
title_sort concurrent reactive arthritis and myelitis – a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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