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KMID : 0358319820230020260
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Korean Journal of Urology
1982 Volume.23 No. 2 p.260 ~ p.264
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A Case of Reiter`s Syndrome
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김석칠/Kim SC
김남국/나현재/이학영/우영남/김동한/Kim NG/Na HJ/Lee HY/Woo YN/Kim DH
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Abstract
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Reiter`s disease can no longer be considerded a rare and relatively benign syndrome, defined by the clinical triad of urethritis, conjunctivitis and arthritis.
In the etiology of Reiter`s disease, it can be regarded as a post-infectious syndrome after certain enteric disease or veneral infection and usually occurs in patients between 20 and 40 years old, with a male to female ratio of 10:1 in dysenteric cases and 50:1 in veneral cases.
The diagnosis of Reiter`s disease should quite obious when the clinical manifestation of non specific urethritis, conjunctivitis, arthritis and mucocutaneous lesions. Recently, HLA-B27 antigen is strogly associated with Reiter`s syndrome and may be diagnosticlly useful when HLA-B27 is positive.
There is no specific therapy for Reiter`s disease, but conservative treatement is aviable of acute stage oir recurrence of the disease.
We have experienced a case of Reiter`s syndrome in 27 years old male and reproted with review of some literatures.
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