Travel- and immigration-related problems in rheumatology.
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol
; 28(6): 973-85, 2014 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26096097
ABSTRACT
Health problems are self-reported by up to 64% of travellers to the developing world. Traditionally, rheumatic symptoms are accorded little significance, but many travellers do return home with musculoskeletal complaints. The assessment of these patients is often hindered by the Western clinician's lack of familiarity with the types of infections that the patient may have encountered while travelling. Standard serological tests for autoimmune diseases can be unreliable in the setting of concomitant tropical infection, and these infections themselves can have musculoskeletal manifestations. Even in the absence of tropical infection, laboratory investigation of musculoskeletal symptoms in individuals of different ethnicities is challenging due to genetic and physiological variation. This review focusses on addressing the impact global migration has had on rheumatological clinical practice.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Travel
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Rheumatic Diseases
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Emigration and Immigration
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol
Journal subject:
REUMATOLOGIA
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Reino Unido