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Update on the treatment of musculoskeletal manifestations in chikungunya fever:...
Brito,Carlos Alexandre Antunes de; Marques,Cláudia Diniz Lopes; Falcão,Melissa Barreto; Cunha,Rivaldo Venâncio da; Simon,FabriceAbstract Since the emergence of the chikungunya virus in Brazil in 2014, more than 700,000 cases have been reported throughout the country, corresponding to one-third of all cases reported in the Americas. In addition to its high attack rates, resulting in hundreds of thousands of cases, the disease has high chronicity rates with persistent joint manifestations for more than 3 months, which can spread to more t...
Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for diagnosis and trea...
Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Ranzolin,Aline; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Cavalcanti,Nara GualbertoAbstract Chikungunya fever has become a relevant public health problem in countries where epidemics occur. Until 2013, only imported cases occurred in the Americas, but in October of that year, the first cases were reported in Saint Marin island in the Caribbean. The first autochthonous cases were confirmed in Brazil in September 2014; until epidemiological week 37 of 2016, 236,287 probable cases of infection w...
Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the diagnosis and ...
Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Ranzolin,Aline; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Cavalcanti,Nara GualbertoAbstract Chikungunya fever has become an important public health problem in countries where epidemics occur because half of the cases progress to chronic, persistent and debilitating arthritis. Literature data on specific therapies at the various phases of arthropathy caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection are limited, lacking quality randomized trials assessing the efficacies of different therapies. The...