[Uveitis and spondyloarthritis: prevalence and relationship with joint disease].

Purpose: To study uveitis prevalence in the local population with spondyloarthritis and its temporal relationship with joint complaints.

Methods: We reviewed seventy-seven charts of spondyloarthropathy patients from the rheumatology clinic of the "Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba" for spondyloarthritis class, patients' sex and age, occurrence of uveitis and its location and relationship between the first episode of uveitis and initial joint complaints.

Results: Uveitis was found in 12 of 77 patients (15.

Parkinsonism and other movement disorders in outpatients in chronic use of cinnarizine and flunarizine.

The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and the patterns of movement disorders (MD) in outpatients submitted to the chronic use of cinnarizine (cz) or flunarizine (fz), and to establish the main risk factors for MD development. Over a period of 3 months, data were collected from outpatients who were chronic users of cz or fz in a municipal health institute. A total of 26 outpatients were included and all of them were submitted to a protocol that included DSM-4 diagnosis criteria for drug-induced movement disorders, parkinsonism (PK) and depression.