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Waldenström's disease complicated by recurrent meningococcal arthritis
M Singwe-Ngandeu1, N Buchs, P Rohner
1Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 28, 2001
Abstract:
Meningococcal arthritis is rare. We report a patient in whom a first episode of meningococcal arthritis revealed Waldenström's disease and who experienced a second episode of meningococcal arthritis 8 years later. We suggest that an impaired immune response secondary to Waldenström's disease favored the recurrence of meningococcal arthritis.