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Efficacy of antibiotic therapy for SAPHO syndrome is lost after its discontinuation
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Conclusions
For the period of application, the antibiotic therapy seems to have controlled the disease. After antibiotics discontinuation however, disease relapse was observed. SAPHO syndrome thus groups with other chronic inflammatory arthropathies with a need of permanent therapy.
Gunter Assmann , Olaf Kueck , Timm Kirchhoff , Herbert Rosenthal , Jan Voswinkel , Michael Pfreundschuh , Henning Zeidler and Annette D Wagner Arthritis Research & Therapy 2009, 11:R140 Full text available
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