Title: B19 Parvovirus Triggered Reactive Arthritis in Older Women– Case Reports from Eastern India
Authors: Aroni Chatterjee, Hiya Ghosh, Agnibha Maiti
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i10.05
Abstract
B19 Parvoviruses are ubiquitous pathogens capable of causing arthritis and erythemas in adult immunocompetent individuals. B19 virus mediated viral inflammation and immune-complex deposition generates mainly short term manifestations in these affected individuals. In this case report we present the cases of two adult females diagnosed with B19 parvovirus associated reactive arthritis and exanthemas. One of them showed recurrent manifestations for over a year, while for the other one it resolved in a few weeks. Exanthems were associated with infections and joint effusions in both the cases and in one of the cases erythema nodosum was associated with arthritis. This case report provides for the first time from eastern India some important leads on the variable manifestation of parvovirus associated arthritis in adult women which will surely benefit the medical practitioners while dealing with these patients.
Keywords: B19 Parvovirus, Reactive arthritis, Exanthems, Erythema nodosum.
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