UC Davis

 Reactive arthritis (Reiter’s syndrome), classically includes the triad of symptoms - conjunctivitis, urethritis and arthritis in young male patients after the urogenital or gastrointestinal infection. In the literature it has been described as the syndrome where one ‘‘can’t see, can’t pee, and can’t climb a tree”. In this article we describe, from the dermatological point of view, 2 cases. The first one – the patient with rheumatoid arthritis, for many years under the medication with Leflunomide and Sulfasalazine, diagnosed on clinical and laboratory grounds. The second one – the patient with clearly diagnosed Reiter’s disease (the first clinical manifestation was circinate balanitis long time before the onset of classic triad).