Reactive Arthritis: Recent Advances and Clinical Manifestations

[Reactive arthritis: advances in diagnosis and treatment].

Reactive Arthritis (ReA) is an aseptic synovitis developing after a primary infection distant from the joint, mainly localized in the gastrointestinal (Enteroarthritis) or genitourinary tract (Uroarthritis). Because of either the asymmetric joint involvement, the possibility of involvement of the spine and enthesis, and the HLA-B27 association ReA is considered one of the spondylarthropathies. ...

Recent advances in clinical practice RECENT ADVANCES IN COELIAC DISEASE

Correspondence to: Professor D A van Heel, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, Turner St, London E1 2AD, UK; [email protected] _________________________ T he management of coeliac disease is an increasing part of a gastroenterologist’s workload. Recent prevalence studies suggest ,1% of the general UK population have po...

Pyrophosphate arthropathy--recent clinical advances.

It is now 20 years since McCarty et al. identified calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals in synovial fluid from patients with acute arthritis and radiological chondrocalcinosis.' CPPD crystals were subsequently shown to be inflammatory both in vivo and in vitro2 and their causal role in joint disease, reflected by the term 'CPPD crystal-induced synovitis', was readily accepted. Cadave...

RECENT ADVANCES in CLINICAL MEDICINE

Neonatal drug dosing needs to be based on the physiological characteristics of the newborn and the pharmacokinetic parameters of the drug. Size-related changes can in part be modelled based on allometry and relates to the observation that metabolic rate relates to weight by a kg 0.75 trend. Until adult metabolic activity has been reached, ontogeny, i.e. iso-enzyme specific maturation and matura...

Recent Advances in Clinical Pathology