CLINICAL-FEATURES AND FOLLOW-UP-STUDY OF HLA-B27 POSITIVE PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH PERIPHERAL ARTHRITIS

  • 1 January 1985
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 12  (3) , 526-528
Abstract
A comparison was made between HLA-B27 positive patients with peripheral arthritis and patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The distribution of peripheral joint involvement in HLA-B27 positive seronegative arthritis was not the same as that in AS; significant differences were also noted in the sex ratio and incidence of uveitis. Follow-up of the patients with peripheral arthritis revealed that 25% had developed a further criterion for Reiter''s syndrome, 45% had persistent seronegative arthritis and in 55% the arthritis had resolved.

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