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Decreased activity of Reiter's syndrome after urethrectomy
R A Rubin1, R A Goldfarb, M D Lidsky
1Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Arthritis and Rheumatism
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
Reiter's syndrome is a chronic rheumatic disease that develops after infective urethritis or gastroenteritis and has a strong association with the HLA-B27 antigen. How these factors interact remains unclear. We present a patient with Reiter's syndrome who exhibited 2 novel features: unusually severe urethritis that produced strictures requiring surgery, and dramatic regression of his rheumatic manifestations following a urethrectomy.