This article reviews the clinical features and likely pathogenesis of arthritis associated with hepatitis.
Informs differential diagnosis in rheumatology and hepatology; leaves open prospective validation of proposed mechanisms.
Synovitis may complicate such commonly seen viral infections as hepatitis, rubella, and mumps. This article describes clinical features of hepatitis-associated arthritis and discusses its likely pathogenesis. In subsequent issues the author will consider arthritis associated with rubella, mumps, Coxsackievirus, and adenovirus.
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