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© 1978 British Society for Rheumatology

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PYOGENIC ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATOID DISEASE: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INFECTED FOOT*

IAN M. MORRIS{dagger}, and A. W. T. EADE

Department of Rheumatology, Coventry Hospitals

Correspondence to: Requests for reprints to Dr. I. M. Morris

During a nine-year period (1968–76) 75 patients were admitted to Coventry Hospitals because of pyogenic arthritis. Of these patients, 22 suffered from pre-existing rheumatoid disease, and in these the foot was the most common site of primary infection. Adequate and energetic management of foot problems and associated skin sepsis in patients suffering from rheumatoid disease appears to offer the best opportunity of reducing the incidence of superimposed pyogenic arthritis.

*Paper read at a combined meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, the Heberden Society, the Irish Society for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation and the British Association for Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Carlisle, October 1977.

{dagger}Present address: Department of Rheumatology, Kettering District General Hospital, Rothwell Road, Kettering, Northants.


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