Arthritis: Causes & Reasons

Warning: Do not use in emergencies, if pregnant, if under 18, or as a substitute for a doctor’s advice or diagnosis. Learn more

Possible Causes for Arthritis

Osteoarthritis

[…] excluding rheumatoid arthritis. [doi.org]

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2015; 67 (4):493–501. [ PubMed ] [ Google Scholar ] 131. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The cost effectiveness of rofecoxib and celecoxib in patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2003;49(3):283–92. [doi.org]

Gouty Arthritis

[…] and 29 with gouty arthritis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Cases were defined as patients with gouty arthritis. Factors that are possibly associated with gouty arthritis and/or heart failure were evaluated. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Gout and rheumatoid arthritis rarely coexist. Chronic gouty arthritis may mimic rheumatoid arthritis, and vice-versa. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Psoriasis

[…] in Arthritis and Rheumatism, (2017). [doi.org]

Health related quality of life of patients with psoriatic arthritis: a comparison with patients with rheumatoid arthritis. [dx.doi.org]

Merola and Sara Davin, The psychosocial burden of psoriatic arthritis, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 47, 3, (351), (2017). [doi.org]

Polyarthritis

Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis Table 2. [medscape.com]

716.20 Allergic arthritis, site unspecified convert 716.20 to ICD-10-CM 716.21 Allergic arthritis, shoulder region convert 716.21 to ICD-10-CM 716.22 Allergic arthritis, [icd9data.com]

In certain PID, chronic, non-infectious arthritis resembling rheumatoid arthritis may occur. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hemochromatosis

This is a report of a patient who had a previous diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, nonerosive, rheumatoid factor negative, that despite the therapeutic approach presented [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Schumacher, in 1964, was the first to recognize the relationship between HC and arthritis. 2 Although arthritis in the second and third metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints is [scielo.br]

[…] present later than men due to the protective effect of iron loss during menses and pregnancy location multi-system disease hypogonadism diabetes liver cirrhosis cardiomyopathy arthritis [orthobullets.com]

Osteoarthritis of the Hip

Arthritis: What’ s the Difference? Looking for online definition of arthritis deformans in the Medical Dictionary? Perthes, On juvenile arthritis deformans. [ilucysoquy.cf]

Section of Obturator Nerve in Treatment of Chronic Arthritis of the Hip.Mém. [surgjournal.com]

gout, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, conjunctivitis, episcleritis, and uveitis. [books.google.com]

Polymyalgia Rheumatica

Report of a Ten‐Year Study in Shelby County, Tennessee, Arthritis & Rheumatism, 26, 10, (1214-1219), (2005). D. Pongratz and W. [doi.org]

Rheumatoid/blood Arthritis, Rheumatoid/chemically induced* Arthritis, Rheumatoid/drug therapy B7-H1 Antigen/antagonists & inhibitors CTLA-4 Antigen/antagonists & inhibitors [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

National Arthritis Data Workgroup. Estimates of the Prevalence of Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Conditions in the United States, Part II. [web.archive.org]

Rheumatoid Arthritis

The arthritis patients' experiences were measured against other study subjects who did not have rheumatoid arthritis but who matched the arthritis patients in age and gender [web.archive.org]

Effect of Rheumatoid arthritis on blood cells Rheumatoid arthritis can cause anemia and can result in Felty's syndrome. [symptoma.com]

TENNESSEE ORIGINS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS by Bruce M. [web.archive.org]

Erythema Nodosum

But patients with only arthritis compared to patients with EN and arthritis did not show a significant difference in C allele frequency (p=0.270; OR 0.64, CI: 0.29-1.42). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] coexistence between reactive arthritis and tuberculosis (Poncet's disease) [6]. [academic.oup.com]

Coincidence of granulomatous mastitis, EN and arthritis is a rare feature. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Childhood arthritis is called juvenile arthritis or juvenile idiopathic arthritis. [arthritis.about.com]

[…] juvenile arthritis systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis juvenile idiopathic arthritis chronic childhood arthritis [wikidata.org]

arthritis. [doi.org]

Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (formerly named polyarticular-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis) is one of the six subtypes of juvenile idiopathic arthritis [symptoma.com]

Recent advances in biologic therapy have enabled reduction of the progression of destructive arthritis in rheumatoid arthritis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

RESULTS: Dyslipoproteinemia was identified in 20 of the 28 (71%) patients with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Arthropathy

Joint diseases can be classified as follows: Arthritis Infectious arthritis Septic arthritis (infectious) Tuberculosis arthritis Reactive arthritis (indirectly) Noninfectious [en.wikipedia.org]

(acute NEC) 729.0 articular (chronic) NEC (see also Arthritis) 716.9 joint (chronic) NEC (see also Arthritis) 716.9 polyarticular NEC (see also Arthritis) 716.9 [icd9data.com]

It may be often mistaken for reactive arthritis [5]. The arthritis may be migratory, intermittent or additive in time. [medcraveonline.com]

Relapsing Polychondritis

Relapsing polychondritis can also develop in patients with preexisting forms of inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. [web.archive.org]

The arthritis in rheumatoid arthritis, however, is erosive and symmetric. [what-when-how.com]

Joints everywhere are involved in episodes of arthritis, with pain and swelling. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Axial Spondyloarthritis

A comparison of disease burden in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis. PLoS One. 2015;10:e0123582. 21. [journals.lww.com]

arthritis). [ajmc.com]

[…] spondylo arthritis U. [thieme-connect.com]

Syphilitic Arthritis

arthritis — Synonyms and related words: adenoiditis, adrenitis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic [medicine.academic.ru]

Degenerative arthritis arises as a result of metabolic disturbance and includes gouty arthritis, arthritis accompanying Kashin-Beck disease and hemophilia, rheumatoid arthritis [encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com]

Etiology and pathogenesis ARTHRITIS(POLYARTHRITIS) SYPHILIS (ARTHRITIS. POLYARTHRITIS SYPHILITICA. [lecheniebolezni.com]

Viral Arthritis

Early systemic inflammatory arthritis can be difficult to differentiate from viral arthritis and should be actively considered in all patients. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Virale Arthritis - Virus-Arthritis und parainfektiöse Arthritis Description. Excerpted from the website description: Die virale Arthritis, auch als Virus. [gepysapotoquxolaxavy.xpg.uol.com.br]

KEYWORDS: Arthritis; alphavirus; arthralgia; hepatitis; parvovirus B19 [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Crystal Arthropathy

The disease course was characterised by acute episodic arthritis in 16 (32%) patients and by persistent symptoms (with or without synovitis) in 34 (68%). [doi.org]

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of this kind of arthritis. Juvenile arthritis is a type of arthritis that happens in children. [icdlist.com]

arthritis). [mdedge.com]

Seronegative Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis in general is an autoimmune type of arthritis. [symptoma.com]

arthritis; enteropathic arthritis; and some forms of juvenile chronic arthritis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract Behcet's disease (BD) with arthritis is often confused with seronegative arthritis (SNA) because of shared clinical symptoms and the lack of definitive biomarkers [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Lyme Disease

It was subsequently identified as a new clinical entity originally called Lyme arthritis based on the observation that arthritis was a major clinical feature. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

A 45-year-old man presented for evaluation for suspected Lyme arthritis. [doi.org]

Lyme arthritis of small joints has not previously been well described. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Bacterial Arthritis

Almost any microorganism can be pathogenic in septic arthritis; however, septic arthritis is caused by nongonococcal pathogens (most commonly Staphylococcus species) in more [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Clinical findings identify patients with peripheral, monoarticular arthritis who might have septic arthritis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Gonococcal arthritis is typically polyarticular. [symptoma.com]

Acute Polyarticular Gout

Acute polyarticular gout continues to masquerade as other commoner rheumatological disorders such as septic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative joint disease, and [experts.umn.edu]

These clues included a past history of intermittent acute gout, prior attacks of polyarticular arthritis, previous hyperuricaemia, and/or obvious tophi. [ard.bmj.com]

Reactive arthritis (most common in ED), Psoriatic Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, IBD Arthritis (suspect seronegative arthritis in patients with oligoarthritis, axial [emergencymedicinecases.com]

Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Scleroderma

Abstract We report a case of subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SPD) in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and diffuse scleroderma. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Arthritis Rheum 2002, 46 :2983–2989. [doi.org]

Arthritis Rheum. [emedicine.com]

Sarcoidosis

Semin Arthritis Rheum 30: 33 – 46. [doi.org]

Semin Arthritis Rheum 36(3):159–167 PubMed CrossRef Google Scholar 4. [doi.org]

The arthritis of sarcoidosis. Arthritis Rheum. 1969; 12 :126–137. [ PubMed ] [ Google Scholar ] 42. Visser H, Vos K, Zanelli E, et al. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Arthritis due to Ulcerative Colitis

By incorporating Ulcerative Colitis Joint Pain Arthritis Exercises Home arthritis diet into your regular eating plan it helps to manage the painful symptoms of arthritis on [ictprof.eu]

In 4 (27%) patients arthritis were monoarthicular and eight (53%) of patients arthritis were oligoathicular in 3 (20%) cases, arthritis were polyarthicular. [jmedsoc.org]

In 4 (27%) patients arthritis were monoarthicular, and eight (53%) of patient's arthritis were oligoathicular in 3 (20%) cases, arthritis was polyarthicular. [cjhr.org]

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Excerpt Tree Format Complete Article 1992 Global Functional Status in Rheumatoid Arthritis Excerpt Complete Article Rheumatoid Arthritis Remission Rheumatoid Arthritis Response [rheumatology.org]

Arthritis Rheum 1982 ; 25: 1271 – 1277. Google Scholar | Medline 14. Finucane FF, Freid VM. [dx.doi.org]

Classification 2010 ACR/EULAR RA Classification Criteria Excerpt Tree Format Complete Article Slides Other RA Classification Criteria 1987 Rheumatoid Arthritis Classification [rheumatology.org]

Psoriatic Arthritis

Arthritis mutilans has also been called chronic absorptive arthritis, and may be seen in rheumatoid arthritis as well. [en.wikipedia.org]

An asymmetrical arthritis pattern is shown below. Asymmetrical arthritis pattern of psoriatic arthritis (fixed flexion deformity). [emedicine.medscape.com]

What is psoriatic arthritis? Psoriatic arthritis can occur in people who have psoriasis (scaly red and white skin patches). [niams.nih.gov]

Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis

The disorder is seen in rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Aug. 63(8):1188-94. [Medline]. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Other: Connective tissue disease, e.g. mixed connective tissue disease, SLE, rheumatoid arthritis. [librepathology.org]

Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

The present report describes a young patient with tuberculous arthritis of the knee. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

PVNS may appear with symptoms resembling juvenile idiopathic arthritis, thus the disease should be considered in differential diagnosis of any inflammatory arthritis in children [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

She was diagnosed as polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis at a local hospital. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Feb 17. [Medline]. Heijl C, Harper L, Flossmann O, et al. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Jul. 60(7):2156-68. [Medline]. Tesfa D, Ajeganova S, Hägglund H, et al. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Arthritis Rheum 43 : 1021–1032 4. [nature.com]

Henoch-Schönlein Purpura

HSP is characterized by palpable purpura plus IgA deposition on biopsy, arthritis/arthralgia, renal involvement (hematuria and/or proteinuria), and/or abdominal pain. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is a small vessel vasculitis that is characterized by non-thrombocytopenic purpura, abdominal pain, arthritis, and glomerulonephritis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Diagnosis Diagnosis is not difficult if the classic triad of rash, gastrointestinal complaints or hematuria, and arthritis is present. [aafp.org]