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- Title
The co-occurrence of Reiter's syndrome and acquired immunodeficiency.
- Authors
Winchester, Robert; Bernstein, Donald H.; Fischer, Harry D.; Enlow, Roger; Solomon, Gary; Winchester, R; Bernstein, D H; Fischer, H D; Enlow, R; Solomon, G
- Abstract
Thirteen patients who had the co-occurrence of severe Reiter's syndrome and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or its syndromes were studied. The arthritis was reactive in three patients and without defined cause in the others. Nine patients had HLA-B27. The two syndromes appeared simultaneously in four patients, suggesting a common biologic process, and in the others the immunodeficiency either preceded or followed the arthritis. Reiter's syndrome occurring in the setting of this profound immunodeficiency suggests that helper T cells were not involved in the pathogenesis of the rheumatic disease. Difficulties were encountered in the diagnosis of either syndrome in the presence of the other. Two patients with Reiter's syndrome developed Kaposi's sarcoma and fulminant AIDS after receiving methotrexate, which emphasizes the need for caution in the use of immunosuppressive therapy in Reiter's syndrome. An additional patient with undifferentiated spondylarthropathy subsequently developed psoriasis in conjunction with the onset of AIDS.
- Subjects
AIDS; IMMUNOLOGICAL deficiency syndromes
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1987, Vol 106, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-106-1-19