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Extra-articular and Other Conditions Associated with Joint Pain

Eyes
  • Iritis or uveitis - Spondyloarthropathies, Sarcoidosis,
exudates) - SLE • Scleritis ... - SLE Neurologic ... , Vasculitis (e.g ... #differential # ... diagnosis #rheumatology
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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often causes arthritis ... Glomerulonephritis, arthritis ... mucositis - Rash, arthritis ... disease Differential ... differential #diagnosis
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Cell Arteritis) ... mucositis • Rash, arthritis ... often causes arthritis ... Glomerulonephritis, arthritis ... Diagnosis #Rheumatology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
(headache and diplopia ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... SLE, Reactive arthritis ... SLE, Reactive Arthritis ... #signs #symptoms
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Giant cell arteritis ... arteritis (GCA) ... Arteritis: Often ... diagnosis = vasculitis ... #Signs #Symptoms
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
, inflammatory arthritis ... Diagnosis: • ANCA-associated ... arthritis, adult-onset ... Arthritis: • ... to: Arthritis,
Sweet Syndrome

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by fever and inflamed
with systemic disease ... of the joints (arthritis ... and Symptoms: ... (arthritis and ... Neutrophilic rheumatoid arthritis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
cough, chills, headache ... symptomsRheumatologic ... • Sclerosing mediastinitis ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... Meningitis, septic arthritis