Reactive Arthritis

Shared features and clinical presentations can make diagnosis and management of psoriatic arthritis, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis and reactive arthritis particularly challenging, according to a speaker at the 2021 Rheumatology Nurses Society annual conference.

A maladaptive immune response may be prompting arthritic complications in patients with persistent and drug-refractory Lyme disease, according to a speaker at the EULAR 2021 Congress.

Studies that feature work participation as an outcome in patients with inflammatory arthritis should identify key contextual factors — such as job type or social security system — upfront, according to new “points to consider” from EULAR.

This episode discusses the case of an 85-year-old man with a history of hypertension and fairly recently diagnosed bladder cancer who presents with oligoarticular asymmetric inflammatory arthritis. Explore the details of this case and learn how bacillus Calmette-Guérin and reactive arthritis are related in this diagnostic conundrum.