The tainted legacy of Hans Reiter

Panush, Richard S.; D, Paraschiv; Dorff, Rabbi Elliot N.

doi:10.1053/sarh.2003.49997

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“…ReA earlier known as Reiter’s syndrome, may present with a triad of conjunctivitis, urethritis and arthritis following an antecedent infection 3. Common antecedent infections include Chlamydia trachomatis, Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia and Campylobacter , with the most common being Chlamydia.…”

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A rare cause of oligoarthritis with septic presentation

2018

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A 33-year-old man presented with new-onset, asymmetric, migratory oligoarthritis in the setting of several weeks of nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea, fevers and dysuria. He was initially treated in the inpatient setting with broad-spectrum antibiotics due to concern for an evolving sepsis presentation. Arthrocentesis of a large right knee effusion revealed inflammatory synovial fluid without findings suggestive of septic arthritis. Human leucocyte antigen B27 was positive and, taken together with the antecedent history of gastroenteritis, dysuria and inflammatory oligoarthritis, the clinical diagnosis was most consistent with reactive arthritis. Antibiotics were discontinued. His treatment course proved refractory to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and intra-articular and systemic glucocorticoid therapy with concurrent use of sulfasalazine and ultimately necessitated treatment with a tumour necrosis factor alpha inhibitor.

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A rare cause of oligoarthritis with septic presentation

2018

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“…They include Hans Reiter, who was directly and personally implicated in multiple war crimes, including typhus experiments carried out on concentration camp victims. 2 In 2003, an international group of rheumatology journal editors decided to eliminate usage of the term Reiter syndrome, and this eponym no longer appears in many journals nor in recent editions of several internal medicine textbooks (largely replaced with the term reactive arthritis). 3 An analogous decision was made regarding Hallervorden-Spatz disease when it became clear that Julius Hallervorden's wartime reputation was remarkably enhanced by his dissections of "wonderful material": 500 brains obtained from euthanized "feeble-minded individuals."…”

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2007

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“…In 2003, PANUSH et al [3] reported on the biography of Hans Reiter, after whom a form of reactive arthritis was named despite the fact that others had described the condition well before him. Apart from being an outspoken lecturer in favour of ''racial hygiene'', Reiter served on the advisory board to Hitler's physician, Karl Brandt, who headed the infamous ''euthanasia'' programme.…”

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“…Moreover, Reiter, as Chief of the Reich Health Service, approved not only the sterilisation programmes but also the deliberate infection of concentration camp inmates with rickettsia. The report by PANUSH et al [3] led many physicians, particularly in the USA and Germany, to abandon the use of the eponym in favour of a more descriptive name [4]. Panush's work also led to the formal retraction, in 2007, of the initial publication that coined this particular eponym [5].…”

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