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- Title
Sterile Osteitis and Suppurative Arthritis Associated with Pannus Responding to Colchicine.
- Authors
Tezcan, Mehmet Engin; Ekinci, Özgür; Uçar, Murat; Göker, Berna
- Abstract
Sterile suppurative arthritis is characterized by neutrophilic infiltration of joints without any causative pathogen. Here, we present a 32-year-old man with refractory osteitis and erosive suppurative oligoarthritis with pannus. Treatments with multiple disease modifying antirheumatic drugs were all unsuccessful. However, he had clinical response to colchicine and the synovial hypertrophy and the pannus in the MRI of his left shoulder resolved. In this case, the effects of colchicine on neutrophils might have played a role in treating neutrophilic sterile suppurative arthritis, which, in adults, might be a distinct oligoarticular disease.
- Subjects
OSTEITIS; ARTHRITIS; COLCHICINE; JOINT diseases; ANTIRHEUMATIC agents; HYPERTROPHY
- Publication
Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2013, p1
- ISSN
2090-6889
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2013/249471