enthesopathy/diarrhea

A 17-year-old boy had suffered from right ankle arthralgia when he was 13 years old. He also had bilaterally congested conjunctivas and were erythematous around his right ankle joint. A soft tissue echo showed swelling of the right ankle joint. A Ga 67 scan revealed a focal elevated uptake in the

OBJECTIVE In 2005 a large outbreak of Salmonella hadar occurred in Spain following the consumption of commercial precooked roast chicken. We estimated the incidence and risk factors for reactive arthritis (ReA) and other musculoskeletal sequelae in the patients of this outbreak in 2 health

A possible relationship between intestinal inflammation and joint disease development was investigated. Clinical symptoms of colitis--diarrhea and rectal bleeding--were confirmed by findings of inflammatory processes in the colon in dextran sodium sulfate-treated mice and joint ankylosing

Enteric pathogens are an endemic cause of acute diarrheal diseases among Peruvians. The frequency of HLA-B27 in the general population (0%-3%) is lower than that among Caucasians in the United States, Canada, and Europe (6%-14%). It was believed that both of these factors were likely to interact to

Classification criteria for most of the disorders belonging to the spondylarthropathy group already exist. However, the spectrum of spondylarthropathy is wider than the sum of these disorders suggests. Seronegative oligoarthritis, dactylitis or polyarthritis of the lower extremities, heel pain due