CLINICAL AND LABORATORY PROFILE OF POST FEBRILE ARTHRITIS
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 17
Abstract
We have studied 47 cases out of hundreds of cases with poly arthralgias without signs and symptoms suggestive of typical arthritis over a period of one year i.e., January 2013 to January 2014 out of which 28 cases are women, 19 are men, with history of fever and signs and symptoms of URTI followed by polyarthitis involving small to medium sized joints, and in few with large joints with underlying osteoarthritis with sinovitis. All these patients were evaluated for routine as well as HLAb27,ANA and other viral markers for epidemic arthritis ,out of which one case each of HLAb27 and Chikungunya Elisa positive, incidentally Rheumatoid factor positive in 3 cases.
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Valluri Satya Prasad, Manavalla Subrahmanyam
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- DOI 10.18410/jebmh/2015/371
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