女子Reiter氏症候群の1例

Abstract

Author came across a case of typical female Reiter's sydrome on a 41 years old married woman whose couple did not experience any venereal disease in the past. Her early symptom was watery diarrhea which was followed by three major symptom, aseptic cyctitis, bilateral aseptic conjunctivitis, and multiple aseptic arthritis accompanied by remittent fever and a large amount of purulent vaginal discharge from which Gram negative bacilli were found. Amount of the vaginal discharge was increased during period and decreased during menstrual period. The symptoms were not improved in spite of massive administration of Maphalzole, antibiotics, and predonine. However, her general condition was slowly improved and finally recovered without any sequellae 9 months after the onset of the disease. According to bibliographic survey female Reiter's syndrome was reported by Solomon Rinkoff in 1952 and this is 6th case in Japan.