Human parvovirus arthropathy.
19 of 153 patients attending an early-synovitis clinic were shown to have been recently infected by the human parvovirus (HPV). 5 other patients had evidence of some other closely preceding infection. HPV-infected patients typically presented with symmetrical peripheral polyarthropathy of sudden onset and moderate severity. Usually there was some improvement within 2 weeks, but in 17 patients symptoms persisted for more than 2 months, and in 3 for more than 4 years. Arthropathy in the absence of the facial rash that characterises HPV infection in children is a common presentation of the infection in adults.
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Woolf
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Mortimer
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Cohen
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Blake
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Bacon
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis