PMID- 24383909
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140107
LR  - 20161020
IS  - 1439-7595 (Print)
IS  - 1439-7595 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 2
DP  - 2002 Jun
TI  - Reactive arthritis after pharyngeal infection: report of two siblings.
PG  - 182-5
LID - 10.3109/s101650200031 [doi]
AB  - Abstract  In this report we describe the cases of two siblings with reactive 
      arthritis (ReA) induced by pharyngeal infections. The patients were a man and his 
      sister living with their parents. He developed arthritis in August 1997, and his 
      younger sister developed similar symptoms in September 1998. Their disease 
      conditions were both severe and required hospitalization. Their conditions 
      improved with the administration of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs together 
      with antibiotics, and both fully recovered within 1-2 weeks. Rheumatic fever was 
      ruled out since streptococcal infections were not demonstrated with 
      antistreptolysin O (ASO) or antistreptokinase (ASK) titers, or with pharyngeal 
      culture. The sister suffered from a rash which was similar to erythema nodosum on 
      her lower extremities, but neither chorea nor carditis was observed. Both human 
      leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing analyses revealed positive results for HLA-B40 and 
      -B39 for the brother and sister, respectively. Both HLA-B40 and -B39 are 
      considered to be related to HLA-B27-negative ReA, most likely poststreptococcal 
      reactive arthritis (PSRA). Therefore, the two patients were tentatively diagnosed 
      as suffering from PSRA.
FAU - Asakawa, J
AU  - Asakawa J
AD  - Department of Medicine, Yanagibashi Hospital , 2-20-4 Yanagibashi, Taito-ku, 
      Tokyo 111-0052 , Japan.
FAU - Torikoe, Y
AU  - Torikoe Y
FAU - Kondo, I
AU  - Kondo I
FAU - Yasuda, M
AU  - Yasuda M
FAU - Kobayashi, S
AU  - Kobayashi S
FAU - Hashimoto, H
AU  - Hashimoto H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Mod Rheumatol
JT  - Modern rheumatology
JID - 100959226
EDAT- 2002/06/01 00:00
MHDA- 2002/06/01 00:01
CRDT- 2014/01/04 06:00
PHST- 2014/01/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2002/06/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/06/01 00:01 [medline]
AID - 10.3109/s101650200031 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mod Rheumatol. 2002 Jun;12(2):182-5. doi: 10.3109/s101650200031.