PNEUMOCOCCAL POLYARTHRITIS

Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Colonization among Children after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction

World Health Organization has recommended all countries to introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in routine immunization schedule, especially those countries with higher rate of mortality in children. However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo V...

Hashimoto's thyroiditis and polyarthritis: a possible subset of seronegative polyarthritis.

Fifteen patients presenting with inflammatory polyarthritis who had Hashimoto's thyroiditis were investigated. Only 2/15 had frank myxoedema, 8/15 had incipient hypothyroidism (raised levels of thyrotropin or early symptoms of mild hypothyroidism), and 5/15 were euthyroid (thyrotropin levels normal). The presence or absence of rheumatoid factor (RF) distinguished two subgroups with different se...

Polyarthritis and pitting oedema.

CASE 1 A 74 year old white man presented with an abrupt onset of metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and interphalangeal (IP) joint pains associated with swelling of both hands. He had two hours of morning stiVness but no other joint complaints or history of constitutional symptoms. Past medical history was unremarkable except for diabetes mellitus type 2 treated with oral antidiabetic drugs. Examination...

Polyarthritis and angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy.

Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy (AILD) is a lymphoproliferative disorder with well established clinical and histological features, one of the clinical manifestations being a peripheral polyarthritis. A case of AILD with a symmetrical non-erosive peripheral polyarthritis is described, including the findings in the synovial fluid and histology of the synovium. There was a marked reduction in t...

Chikungunya viral polyarthritis.