Primary Meningococcal Type C Arthritis: A Case Report and Literature Review

Acute septic arthritis is a common clinical problem in emergency departments. Primary meningococcal arthritis (PMA) is very rare and few cases are reported in literature. D. B. M. consulted the emergency department for knee pain and fever; analysis showed that the cause was a Neisseria meningitidis...

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Autores principales: Barahona, Maximiliano, Catalan, Jaime, Sato, Yoshiro, Hinzpeter, Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5402246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28487799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4696014
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author Barahona, Maximiliano
Catalan, Jaime
Sato, Yoshiro
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description Acute septic arthritis is a common clinical problem in emergency departments. Primary meningococcal arthritis (PMA) is very rare and few cases are reported in literature. D. B. M. consulted the emergency department for knee pain and fever; analysis showed that the cause was a Neisseria meningitidis type C infection. He received a treatment consisting of 2 arthroscopies and 5 weeks of antibiotics. At five weeks he returned to work and at 2 months he resumed sports (jogging and soccer) without complaints. Primary arthritis of the knee caused by Neisseria meningitidis is very rare. It has a very good response to antibiotics and arthroscopy procedure. Short-term follow-up and functional results are often good or excellent.
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spelling pubmed-54022462017-05-09 Primary Meningococcal Type C Arthritis: A Case Report and Literature Review Barahona, Maximiliano Catalan, Jaime Sato, Yoshiro Hinzpeter, Jaime Case Rep Orthop Case Report Acute septic arthritis is a common clinical problem in emergency departments. Primary meningococcal arthritis (PMA) is very rare and few cases are reported in literature. D. B. M. consulted the emergency department for knee pain and fever; analysis showed that the cause was a Neisseria meningitidis type C infection. He received a treatment consisting of 2 arthroscopies and 5 weeks of antibiotics. At five weeks he returned to work and at 2 months he resumed sports (jogging and soccer) without complaints. Primary arthritis of the knee caused by Neisseria meningitidis is very rare. It has a very good response to antibiotics and arthroscopy procedure. Short-term follow-up and functional results are often good or excellent. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5402246/ /pubmed/28487799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4696014 Text en Copyright © 2017 Maximiliano Barahona et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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