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Question 1

treatment of lyme

Answer 1

early localized or late disease with arthritis only treat with doxycycline or amoxicillin; carditis and meningitis require IV ceftriaxone or penicillin

Question 2

prognosis for lyme disease

Answer 2

excellent; chronic sequelae are rare

Question 3

seronegative spondyloarthropathies

Answer 3

joints or axial skeleton inflamm; examples are reactive arthritis, psoritatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis; arthritis of inflamm bowel disease

Question 4

reactive arthritis

Answer 4

arthritis triggered by enteric or sexually transmitted pathogen; example is Reiter’s disease

Question 5

reiter’s diseas

Answer 5

triad of arthritis, urethritis, and conjunctivitis; classically triggered by chalamydia

Question 6

psoriatic arthritis

Answer 6

arthritis of small and large joint in patients with psoriasis

Question 7

ankylosin spondylitis

Answer 7

male predominant; HLA-B27-related syndrome; affects joints of lower extremites and axial skeleton; inflamm of tendinous inserts on bone