TY - JOUR
T1 - The relation between nongranulomatous uveitis and arthritis
AU - Van Metre, Thomas E.
AU - Brown, Webster H.
AU - Knox, David L.
AU - Maumenee, A. Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Department of Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Supported in part 13~ the National Institute of Allergy Public Health Service (Training Grant 2-E-9), The Upjohn Dohme Fellowship Grants in Allergy, the Consolidated Research of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and United NB-00043 I ‘Etiology and Treatment of Uveitis’ ‘) . Presented in part before the Twentieth Annual Allergy, San Francisco, California, on Feb. 1964. Received for publication July 29, 1964.
PY - 1965
Y1 - 1965
N2 - Arthritis occurred in 20 (30 per cent) of 67 patients with nongranulomatous uveitis, but in only 8 (3 per cent) of 277 patients with other uveal lesions. It was more common in patients wth recurrent, acute rather than persistent, chronic nongranulomatous uveitis. The arthritis had distinctive features. It was usually an asymmetrical, nonankylosing, peripheral polyarthritis involving the lower extremities more frequently than the upper ones. In addition, ankylosing spondylitis was present in almost all male but in no female arthritis patients. Rheumatoid factor could not be demonstrated in the sera of these patients. The data suggest a relation between nongranulomatous uveitis and a distinctive type of arthritis.
AB - Arthritis occurred in 20 (30 per cent) of 67 patients with nongranulomatous uveitis, but in only 8 (3 per cent) of 277 patients with other uveal lesions. It was more common in patients wth recurrent, acute rather than persistent, chronic nongranulomatous uveitis. The arthritis had distinctive features. It was usually an asymmetrical, nonankylosing, peripheral polyarthritis involving the lower extremities more frequently than the upper ones. In addition, ankylosing spondylitis was present in almost all male but in no female arthritis patients. Rheumatoid factor could not be demonstrated in the sera of these patients. The data suggest a relation between nongranulomatous uveitis and a distinctive type of arthritis.
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U2 - 10.1016/0021-8707(65)90164-4
DO - 10.1016/0021-8707(65)90164-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 14269552
AN - SCOPUS:33644974164
VL - 36
SP - 158
EP - 174
JO - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
JF - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
SN - 0091-6749
IS - 2
ER -