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polyarticular arthritis
Arthritis involving many joints.
Etiology:
1) acute
a) infectious arthritis
- Lyme disease
- rheumatic fever
- endocardititis
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- viral arthritis
- rubella
- parvovirus B19
- hepatitis B
b) acute sarcoidosis (Lofgren's syndrome)
c) crystalline arthritis (generally monoarticular)
d) immune complex-induced arthritis
- serum sickness
- hypersensitivity drug reaction
2) chronic
a) rheumatoid arthritis
b) systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
c) spondyloarthropathy
- ankylosing spondylitis
- psoriatic arthritis
- reactive arthritis
- Reiter's syndrome
- enteropathic arthritis
d) osteoarthritis (may be monoarticular)
e) carcinoma, paraneoplastic syndrome [2]
Clinical manifestations:
- see arthritis
Laboratory:
- see arthritis
Radiology:
- see arthritis
Management:
- see arthritis
General
arthritis
References
- Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8)
Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds)
American Geriatrics Society, 2013
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015