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Post-Streptococcal Reactive Arthritis

2019· review· en· W2978874354 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent Rheumatology Reviews · 2019
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicStreptococcal Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineReactive arthritisArthritisPolyarthritisDermatologyImmunologyCarditisIntensive care medicineInternal medicine

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: Post-Streptococcal Reactive Arthritis (PSRA) is defined as inflammatory arthritis of ≥1 joint associated with a recent group A streptococcal infection in a patient who does not fulfill the Jones criteria for the diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF). METHODS: In this narrative review, we conducted a systematic search on MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar using the words poststreptococcal reactive arthritis. The search covered the time period between 1982 and 2016. The purpose of this review is to summarize the current state of knowledge of PSRA with respect to the definition, epidemiology, clinical presentation and treatment. We also summarize the key differences between PSRA, reactive arthritis (ReA) and ARF. RESULTS: PSRA has a bimodal age distribution at ages 8-14 and 21-37 years with an almost equal male to female ratio. Clinically, it causes acute asymmetrical non-migratory polyarthritis, however, tenosynovitis and small joint arthritis may occur. This disease entity can be associated with extraarticular manifestations, including erythema nodosum, uveitis and glomerulonephritis. The frequency of HLA-B27 in PSRA does not differ from that of the normal population, which suggests that it is a separate entity from ReA. Involvement of the axial skeleton, including sacroiliitis, is uncommon in PSRA. PSRA tends to occur within 10 days of a group A streptococcal infection, as opposed to the 2 to 3 weeks delay for ARF. PSRA can be associated with prolonged or recurrent arthritis, in contrast to ARF, in which arthritis usually lasts a few days to 3 weeks. Treatment usually involves NSAIDs or corticosteroids. CONCLUSION: We summarize clinical features that help differentiate PSRA from ARF and ReA. First-line treatment options include NSAIDs and corticosteroids. Most cases resolve spontaneously within a few weeks, but some cases are recurrent or prolonged. There are no published randomized controlled trials of PSRA.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.952
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0080.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.021

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.127
GPT teacher head0.427
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it