title: [Various aspects of the chronic course of Reiter's disease].
abstract: A comparative clinicolaboratory study of followed-up patients with a chronic (38 patients), acute and lingering (137 patients) course of Reiter's disease was conducted. The role of a persisting focus of infection in the genitourinary organs and genetic predisposition (HLA-B27 was detected in 100% of the cases) in the formation of a chronic variant of disease was shown. Sacroileitis, amyotrophy, bursitis and enthesitis developed more frequently in a chronic than in an acute variant; erosion in the joints was detected in over 40% of the patients. Morphological investigation of the synovial bioptates revealed a picture of chronic synovitis with superficial localization of an inflammatory process.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016918:Arthritis, Reactive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002062:Bursitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004760:Enterocolitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013585:Synovitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014526:Urethritis / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Nekotorye aspekty khronicheskogo techeniia bolezni Reĭtera.