Modern Look at the Diagnosis and Treatment of Reactive Arthritis
The problem of diagnosing and treating reactive arthritis is a little-developed issue. Until today, there is no single point of view of rheumatologists in Europe on the methods of application of the trigger infection, clinical options and the duration of treatment of diseases. The introduced changes and their effect on the duration of therapy are not taken into account. Long-term effects and disease prognosis are not monitored. The classification criteria for reactive arthritis are based on those developed by an international expert council (Berlin 1999). More than 20 years have passed since their development. New information has accumulated on the clinical manifestations and methods of treating this pathology, the results of 15 years of work by a large team of employees of the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine BSMU, rheumatologists of the 9th City Clinical Hospital and the MDC, MNPC ST and H are taken into account.The article is devoted to the relevance and tediousness of the diagnosis and treatment of reactive Chlamydia-induced arthritis, a new look at the treatment approaches of patients with various clinical manifestations and the nature of the course of the disease.