Arthritis associated with gonorrhoea.

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Abstract
Twenty-six patiens in whom an episode of arthritis was associated with culture-proven gonorrhoea were carefully studied with respect to age, sex, interval between onset of urethritis or cervicitis and arthritis, mode of presentation, pattern of joint involvement, response to penicillin therapy, and laboratory findings, particularly synovial fluid analysis. In 21, the arthritis was suppurative, polyarticu-lar, and responsive to pencillin therapy; in 5 it was nonsuppurative, polyarticular, non-responsive to penicillin therapy, and inclined to pursue a sub-acute or chronic course. Two of these 5 patients with chronic arthritis appeared to have classical Reiter''s syndrome associated with gonorrhoea.

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