Our patient had painful oral ulcers with panuveitis, genital ulcers and a positive pathergy reaction fullfilling the diagnostic criteria. It was complicated by a right atrial thrombus and Budd Chiari syndrome, which is the thrombosis of hepatic veins where Behcet's disease is a rare cause among many. It is well established that Behcet's disease predisposes to venous and arterial thrombosis and ...

A survey of the literature on diseases of children reveals the fact that there is a widely-held opinion that children of one type are more prone than those of other types to rheumatism in its various forms. The description of the incriminated type, however, varies so much with different writers as to make correlation difficult. Further, but few writers quote positive evidence in support of thei...

(Chief Assistant, Department of Chronic Rheumatism at the West London Hospital, and at the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth.) Muscular rheumatism is probably the commonest ailment that affects mankind, yet in spite of its ubiquity little really scientific work has been done on the subject until recently, and almost nothing is known about its pathology. In the last few years certain aspect...

* From the Rheumatism Centre, Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas. t Director of the Rheumatism Centre and Chief of the Medical Service (now returned to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota). I Chief of the Section on Rheumatic Diseases (now returned to Los Angeles, California). jI In addition to the 24,770 cases of acute articular rheumatism (rheumatic fever), there were 17,...

The rheumatic diseases, including the rheumatoid and osteo-arthritic types of arthritis and non-articular rheumatism, constitute by far the most important cause of crippling. A person suffering from a serious cardiac lesion is also in a sense crippled, so that, if we include the incapacity for work from this condition due to acute rheumatism, the problem is seen to be one of grave national and ...

phase is mistaken for malaria, typhoid, paratyphoid, influenza, dengue, kalaazar, hepatitis rheumatism, rheumatic fever, and tuberculosis/ The chronic phase of brucellosis is usually mistaken for rheumatism, chronic ill health, genera debility, tuberculosis* and psychoneurosis Majority of cases of chronic brucellosis com plain of a weak state of health with feeling o tiredness and pains in the ...

" Moussun," a tolerably strong lad, aged 16, was brought into hospital on the 31st January last. On admission he presented the following symptoms :?He lay on his left side, the arms and legs spasmodically flexed?the left more than the right, and the hands resting on the shoulders. The limbs could be extended by the application of some force, but they at once resumed their flexed position. If th...

Objectives: Bisphosphonate-associated atypical sub-rrochanteric femur fractures {ASFF) may be seen with long-term bisphosphonate use, though these fractures are also seen in patients never exposed to bisphosphonates. One theoiy for the mechanism of action whereby bisphosphonates may induce these ASFF is over-suppression of bone turnover. Bisphosphonates suppress bone turnover. but in bisphospho...