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J M Ruiz Martín

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PubMed1998

[Septic arthritis caused by S. pneumoniae. Report of 2 cases with unusual location].

Arthritis by S. pneumoniae, although no frequent, is a well-known disease in patients with underlying diseases and in which they complaint previous articular disease. In the present article 2 cases of location in shoulder and sacroiliac joints are described respectively in a woman with multiple myeloma and an esplenectomizaded man, associations nondescribed previously in literature. The importance of its suspicion in patients with factors of risk for sepsis by S. pneumoniae is emphasized.

Adult↗
PubMed1994

[Reactive arthritis. Prospective clinico-microbiologic study].

We study with a prospective design all reactive arthritis diagnosed at the Service of Rheumatology in Bellvitge Hospital during a thirty months period, from August 1985 to February 1988; in order to describe its clinical features, etiological factors and prognosis. Thirty patients who fulfilled the admission criteria were admitted to the study. A previously designed protocol of clinical, serological and microbiologic study was applied to all. A microorganism was identified in 21 patients. In 14 cases it was Yersinia enterocolitica, in 4 Chlamydia trachomatis, in 2 Salmonella enteritidis and in 1 a group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus. The averaged length of the disease was 7.6 +/- 8 months.

Adolescent↗