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Complications of Reiter's syndrome

After recovery from the initial infection, flare-ups are common. About 10% of men have evidence of active disease 20 years later. About 20% retain some permanent disability.

Other problems that can happen include:

• iritis (inflammation of the iris of the eye),
• keratoderma blenorrhagica (brown abscesses on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, with no germs in the pus),
• mouth ulcers,
• circinate balanitis (painless rash on the penis),
• enthesopathy (inflammation of the tough fibrous tissue in the soles of the feet and inflammation of the Achilles tendon behind the heel), and
• aortic incompetence (a leaky aortic heart valve – very rare in this context).

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