Rheumatoid Arthritis and Tuberculosis Link, 3 Cases
of T.B. Tenosynovitis Wrist

Safaa Eldin Abaza; Sam Nashi

Case Report

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Tuberculosis Link, 3 Cases of T.B. Tenosynovitis Wrist

Safa Eldin Abaza* and Sam Nashi

Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Gulf Diagnostic Center Hospital, UAE

Corresponding Author

Received Date: August 23, 2018; Published Date: September 17, 2018

Abstract

Three cases of sever synovitis and tenosynovitis of the wrist were sent to the author for surgical synovectomy and tenosynovectomies after failure of the medical treatment with biological and disease modifying drugs all of them turn to be tuberculous tenosynovitis after incidental soft tissue and synovial fluid culture, a discussion for the link between both different entity diseases and Awareness of Drug-specific risk of tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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Citation

Safaa Eldin Abaza, Sam Nashi. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Tuberculosis Link, 3 Cases of T.B. Tenosynovitis Wrist. Glob J Ortho Res. 1(1): 2018. GJOR.MS.ID.000501.