Rheumatology in Pathein practice

ABSTRACT

It is a prospective descriptive study on patients with rheumatological diseases who attended Shin Pa Ku private specialist clinic (SPK) and Patein General Hospital (PGH) from Dec 1998 to July 1999. Spectrum of rheumatological diseases was recorded by using proforma. Among 162 rheumatological cases, there were 6 cases of SLE and 3 cases of Systemic scleros is, and all were females. Among the seronegative diseases, 3 patients were suffering from ankylosing spondylitis, and all were suffering from ankylosing spondylitis, and all were males. In 15 cases of reactive arthritis 47