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Mark S. Dworkin, Phyllis C. Shoemaker, Marcia J. Goldoft, John M. Kobayashi, Reactive Arthritis and Reiter's Syndrome Following an Outbreak of Gastroenteritis Caused by Salmonella enteritidis, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 33, Issue 7, 1 October 2001, Pages 1010-1014.

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Uncommon Cause of Reactive Arthritis in the Elderly

1Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY. 100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021, Vol. 9 No. 10, 489-491
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-9-10-2
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Kourosh Shargani, Danielle Sherlock, Cheng-Hung Tai, Harry Fischer. Uncommon Cause of Reactive Arthritis in the Elderly. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021; 9(10):489-491. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-9-10-2.

Correspondence to: Kourosh  Shargani, Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY. 100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, USA. Email: Kshargani@northwell.edu

Abstract

Reactive Arthritis, formerly known as Reiter’s syndrome, is a delayed autoimmune mediated inflammatory reaction in the joints that occurs from a response to an infection elsewhere in the body. It usually occurs in young males in response to a genitourinary or gastrointestinal infection. These males may have a predisposition to reactive arthritis by being Human Leukocyte Antigen-B27 (HLA-B27) positive. This report will display an unusual case of reactive arthritis in an elderly female.

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