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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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