A case of Reiter's disease exacerbated by lithium

Reiter's disease is characterized by the triad of peripheral arthritis, urethritis, and conjunctivitis. A 38-year-old male, who was on treatment with lithium for mania, presented to us with all features of this triad. He was previously diagnosed and treated as seronegative arthritis. However, h...

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Autores principales: Monteiro, Rochelle C., Bhat, Ramesh M., Sukumar, D., Srinath, M. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22021977
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.85422
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author Monteiro, Rochelle C.
Bhat, Ramesh M.
Sukumar, D.
Srinath, M. K.
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description Reiter's disease is characterized by the triad of peripheral arthritis, urethritis, and conjunctivitis. A 38-year-old male, who was on treatment with lithium for mania, presented to us with all features of this triad. He was previously diagnosed and treated as seronegative arthritis. However, his symptoms persisted despite therapy. His skin lesions regressed only once lithium was stopped. Lithium is known to exacerbate or precipitate a multitude of dermatological conditions. However, there is no previous reported association of lithium exacerbating preexisting Reiter's disease. We report this case as it is the first known association of its kind.
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spelling pubmed-31951752011-10-21 A case of Reiter's disease exacerbated by lithium Monteiro, Rochelle C. Bhat, Ramesh M. Sukumar, D. Srinath, M. K. Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Reiter's disease is characterized by the triad of peripheral arthritis, urethritis, and conjunctivitis. A 38-year-old male, who was on treatment with lithium for mania, presented to us with all features of this triad. He was previously diagnosed and treated as seronegative arthritis. However, his symptoms persisted despite therapy. His skin lesions regressed only once lithium was stopped. Lithium is known to exacerbate or precipitate a multitude of dermatological conditions. However, there is no previous reported association of lithium exacerbating preexisting Reiter's disease. We report this case as it is the first known association of its kind. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3195175/ /pubmed/22021977 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.85422 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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