Diagnostic errors in rheumatology and medico-legal consequences.

Medical errors and adverse effects of treatment are inherent to medical practice. Like any other medical specialty, rheumatology is not exempt. Although the problem is imprecisely quantified, according to some authors it affects up to 10% of hospitalised patients.

Reactive arthritis after COVID-19 vaccination: 17 cases.

Objectives: The aim of the study is to report a series of 17 cases of ankle bi-arthritis that occurred shortly after coronavirus disease 2019 RNA vaccination, and to discuss the potential role of these vaccines in the pathogenesis of this rheumatological manifestation.

Methods: All patients were examined in the same department and received a full work-up to investigate the usual causes of ankle bi-arthritis. No rheumatic inflammatory disease occurred after 9 months of follow-up.

Quantifying lies in medical expert assessment.

Although lying is ubiquitous and present in all fields, there are very few medical references dealing with this subject. The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify lying in medical expert assessment. It is a retrospective study of 32 medical expert assessment cases, separated into two groups.

[Autoimmune hepatitis and CREST syndrome].

We report the case of an autoimmune hepatitis in a 59-year old woman who was referred for a progressive jaundice. The patient had an history of CREST syndrome. The particularity of this case report is the rare association between these two autoimmune diseases.