[The evolution of the articular lesion in Reiter's syndrome]

Evolution of polyarthritis was elucidated in 115 patients with Reiter's syndrome. There were 67% of men and 33% of women. The mean age of the patients was 33 years. 57% of the patients were HLA B27 carriers. In 70% of the patients, arthritis ran an acute course, in 12%, a subacute course, and 18% developed chronic arthritis. The axial skeleton was involved in 1/3 of the test subjects, enteropathies of different localization were detected in 58% of the cases. The author failed to establish criteria for predicting arthritis chronicity.