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Reactive Arthritis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Overview: In 1916, Hans Reiter described the classic triad of arthritis, nongonococcal urethritis, and conjunctivitis.1 However, he mistakenly dubbed this disease as spirochetosis arthritica.2 This condition used to be known as Reiter syndrome but is ...

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Tags: Emergency, Infection, Arthritis, Reiter's Syndrome, Disease and Condition, Emergency Medicine

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Reactive arthritis (Reiter's disease) is nonpurulent arthritis complicating an infection elsewhere in the body. http://bit.ly/bk8N3G

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