Detection of Shigella spp. nucleic acids in the synovial tissue of Tunisian rheumatoid arthritis patients and other forms of arthritis by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.

Enterobacterial components in the joints of patients are believed to contribute to a perpetuating inflammation leading to a reactive arthritis (ReA), a condition in which microbial agents cannot be recovered from the joint. At present, it is unclear whether nucleic acids from Shigella spp. are playing a pathogenic role in causing not only ReA but also other forms of arthritis.

Tachon Syndrome: Rare Side Effect of Articular Injections of Corticosteroids. A Report of Two Cases.

Epidural or intra-articular injections of corticosteroids are an option for the treatment of several pain conditions but are not without adverse effects. Here, we discuss a rare systemic side effect of this therapy: Tachon syndrome. We report two cases, a 64-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man, who presented with Tachon syndrome after receiving, respectively, a shoulder and a lumbar injection of cortivazol 3.

Jumping improves lower limbs bone mass and lean mass in elite jumpers.

Background: The present study was designed to examine the influence of extreme impact loading induced by jump training on bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) in high level jumpers.

Methods: Forty boys volunteered for the study aged 20 to 21 years. They were 22 high level jumpers and 18 controls.

Back pain caused by a pseudo-tumorous vertebral collapse: atypical presentation of primary vertebral hydatidosis.

Hydatidosis, also known as echinococcosis, is a rare but serious parasitic disease in endemic areas. Primary spinal location is extremely rare. This case report describes a rare instance of hydatid cyst that caused severe and progressive low-back pain and neurologic dysfunction.

[Osteomalacia and giant cell tumor: a rare case].

Background: Oncogenic octeomalacia is an unusual and rare clinicopathologic syndrome characterized by mesenchymal tumors that apparently produce osteomalacia and biochemical abnormalities consisting of hypophosphatemia and normocalcemia.

Aim: We have investigated the mechanism by which a giant cell tumor of bone caused biopsy-proved osteomalacia in a 50-year-old woman.

Case Report: A 50-year-old woman presented with generalized bone and pelvicrural pain, associated with fatiguability and muscle weakness.

[Stress facture: epidemiology, physiopathology and risk factors].

Objective: The aim of this paper is to give an overview on the scientific information related to stress fracture risk factors.

Methods: We searched the Medline and Embase databases using the keywords stress fracture, risk factors and bone microarchitecture. Only French and English articles were included and 52 were chosen because they corresponded to literary reviews, prospective and retrospective studies concerning individuals who participate in athletics, in military recruits or civil.

Detection and frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis DNA in synovial samples from Tunisian patients with reactive arthritis and undifferentiated oligoarthritis.

We aimed to determine the frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis DNA in the synovial compartment of 34 arthritic patients. Chlamydia trachomatis DNA was detected using a nested PCR targeting the cryptic plasmid, the 16S rRNA gene and the outer membrane protein 1 gene. The presence of serum immunoglobulin (Ig)G and IgA antibodies against C.

Fibrolipoma of the median nerve.

Neural fibrolipoma or fibrolipomatous hamartoma is an uncommon benign tumor that usually arises in the median nerve. Fibrofatty tissue proliferates around the nerve and infiltrates the epineurium and perineurium. We report a case of fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the left median nerve in an 18-year-old woman.

[Light chain multiple myeloma revealed by an amyloid arthropathy. A report of two cases].

Introduction: Amyloid arthropathy occurs in 5-15% of patients with multiple myeloma. It is rarely inaugural. Some cases are reported in which the articular manifestations are present many months before the diagnosis of myeloma.