We report an unusual case of concurrent meningitis and infectious monoarthritis due to Listeria monocytogenes in a 65-year-old woman presenting to our department with a transient gastrointestinal tract illness. During hospitalization the patient's neurological status deteriorated, presenting signs of meningeal irritation along with signs of inflammation and oedema of the right knee. Blood cultu...

Results 11 patients were directed with systemic JIA and 2 with olygoarthritis. All patients with “JIA” had criteria for diagnosis according ILAR classification. All patients with ‘’systemic JIA’’ had fever, hepatosplenomegaly, generalized lymphadenopathy, arthralgia or arthritis, high level of CRP, ESR, anemia. Patients with ‘’óligoarthritis’’ had monoarthritis. The diagnosis was made at the pl...

background accurate and rapid diagnosis of bacterial arthritis is not always possible in unvaccinated (streptococcus pneumoniae and haemophilus influenzae type b) children in iran. objectives searching the staphylococcal superantigen (entrotoxin a, b, c and tsst1) in synovial fluid of cases with inflammatory arthritis. patients and methods this cross sectional study was implemented in the pedia...

Nicolae Iagaru e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. TB arthritis is a rare, insidious chronic mono-arthritis resulting in extremely serious destruction of joints and bones. Usually, the possibility of TB arthritis is suggested by family infectious or environmental contact with TB and a positive Test at PPD. The Objectives. Are to discuss about a forgotten etiology of monoarthritis in pedi...

Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease produced by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus. Hydatid disease of bone is rarely seen in humans and it has been reported in only 1-2% of cases of echinococcosis. We present a patient who developed hydatid disease of the left pelvic and femoral bones with cartilage destruction of the ipsilateral hip joint revealing a retroperitoneal location of hyd...