Ritters disease wikipedia

Inflammatory arthritis triggered by infection elsewhere in the body

Medical condition

Reactive arthritis, previously known as Reiter's syndrome,^[1] is a form of inflammatoryarthritis^[2] that develops in response to an infection in another part of the body (cross-reactivity).

Coming into contact with bacteria and developing an infection can trigger the disease.^[3] By the time a person presents with symptoms, the "trigger" infection has often been cured or is in remission in chronic cases, thus making determination of the initial cause difficult.

The manifestations of reactive arthritis include the following triad of symptoms: an inflammatory arthritis of large joints, inflammation of the eyes in the form of conjunctivitis or uveitis, and urethritis in men or cervicitis in women.

Arthritis occurring alone following sexual exposure or enteric infection is also known as reactive arthritis. Affected people may present with mucoc Dukes' disease - Wikipedia LELO