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M Schattenkirchner

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[Blastocystis hominis as a rare arthritogenic pathogen. A case report].

Blastocysts hominis, a protozoon considered to be a nonpathogen intestinal commensal, is now discussed to be a cause of intestinal infection under certain circumstances, e.g., immunosuppression. There are two published cases of Blastocysts infection complicated by arthritis which was classified as "reactive" in one case, "infectious" in the other. We report a third case: A 46-year-old female patient developed a chronic diarrhea and oligoarthritis some days after returning from a trip to Senegal. Arthritis was refractory against treatment with NSAID and corticosteroids. Finally, a 3-week course of treatment with metronidazole resulted in a complete remission of arthritis, gastrointestinal symptoms, and inflammation signs (ESR, CRP). The course in our case, as well as the detection of Blastocysts hominis in synovial fluid in another case, implicate an infectious rather than a reactive etiology of arthritis.

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[Atypical course in (eosinophilic) fasciitis].

A 22-year old male patient developed--following a short phase of monarthritis--the symptoms of a symmetric, polysynoviatic, discrete erosive rheumatoid arthritis, thus fulfilling five of seven ACR criteria. Initially as well as persisting during the course of the disease the palpable swelling of synovitis showed a coarse character. The radiological progression at the hands during an interval of eight years being only minimal the loss of functions, up to contraction of joints (left hip) augmented considerably during that time. Neither rheumatoid factor or antinuclear antibodies nor evident eosinophilia or hypergammaglobulinaemia could be proved or verified. In 1994 muscle biopsy led to the diagnosis "fasciitis with low-graded eosinophilia". Anamnestic, clinical and radiological signs and data as well as the course of the disease and assessing of differential diagnoses are presented and discussed.

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