Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate

We describe a case of bilateral septic knee arthritis that followed the administration of methotrexate for nonsurgical termination of an ectopic pregnancy. We believe that methotrexate is a relatively effective alternative to surgery in patients with early unruptured tubal pregnancies, but suggest t...

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Autores principales: Karaaslan, Fatih, Mermerkaya, Musa Uğur, Yurdakul, Emre, Tanın, Özlem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4298299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610005
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S76249
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author Karaaslan, Fatih
Mermerkaya, Musa Uğur
Yurdakul, Emre
Tanın, Özlem
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description We describe a case of bilateral septic knee arthritis that followed the administration of methotrexate for nonsurgical termination of an ectopic pregnancy. We believe that methotrexate is a relatively effective alternative to surgery in patients with early unruptured tubal pregnancies, but suggest that it be used with caution in view of possible septic events.
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spelling pubmed-42982992015-01-21 Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate Karaaslan, Fatih Mermerkaya, Musa Uğur Yurdakul, Emre Tanın, Özlem Int Med Case Rep J Case Report We describe a case of bilateral septic knee arthritis that followed the administration of methotrexate for nonsurgical termination of an ectopic pregnancy. We believe that methotrexate is a relatively effective alternative to surgery in patients with early unruptured tubal pregnancies, but suggest that it be used with caution in view of possible septic events. Dove Medical Press 2015-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4298299/ /pubmed/25610005 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S76249 Text en © 2015 Karaaslan et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
title Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
title_full Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
title_fullStr Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
title_short Bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
title_sort bilateral septic knee arthritis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy with methotrexate
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4298299/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S76249
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