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Arthritis
Definition of
Inflammation of one (monoarthritis) or several joints. If only a few joints are affected, it is referred to as oligoarthritis; if many joints are affected, it is called polyarthritis. Arthritis should not be confused with osteoarthritis, a non-inflammatory degenerative process of joint wear and tear, even if inflammatory phases („activated osteoarthritis“) can occur as part of osteoarthritis. Be careful with English-language literature, where the term arthritis is used more unspecifically, for example for joint complaints of various causes, including osteoarthritis.
Cause
infectious/post-infectious causes:
- purulent, bacterial arthritis (also: joint empyema, pyarthrosis): (post-)traumatic, hematogenous or iatrogenic
- Post-infectious arthritis, often of the hip (coxitis fugax)
- Osteoarthritis (mostly osteoarthritis)
- Osteomyelitis spreading to the joint
- Joint tuberculosis
- Tabic arthropathy (stage 3 of syphilis)
- Lyme arthritis (Lyme disease)
- Reiter’s disease
- rheumatic fever (streptococcal infection)
autoimmunological causes „rheumatoform“:
- Goutyarthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis(chronic polyarthritis(CP, or primary chronic polyarthritis, pcP, „true rheumatism“)
- Psoriaticarthritis
- Bechterew’s disease (ankylosing spondylitis)
- Concomitant arthritis, e.g. in Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and Whipple’s disease
Symptoms
- Joint pain