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Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary
Overview: chronic, inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints of hands/feet, knees, shoulders
Signs & Symptoms:
Rheumatoid Arthritis ... & Symptoms: • ... Diagnosis: CLINICAL ... #Rheumatoid #Arthritis ... #diagnosis #management
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
SLE, Reactive arthritis ... Ocular melanoma • Arthritis ... SLE, Reactive Arthritis ... #diagnosis #management ... #signs #symptoms
Clinical Features of Systemic Lupus (SLE)
General: Fever (50%), Depression, Fatigue (75%), Weight loss (50%)
Eye: Sjögrens (15%)
Skin
Clinical Features ... Butterfly rash, Vasculitis ... of hip (rare), Arthritis ... #symptoms #diagnosis ... #rheumatology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Differential Diagnosis ... GCA (Giant Cell Arteritis ... mucositis • Rash, arthritis ... and often causes arthritis ... Diagnosis #Rheumatology
Vasculitis and Vasculitides - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
 • Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
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and often causes arthritis ... Glomerulonephritis, arthritis ... mucositis - Rash, arthritis ... differential #diagnosis ... #rheumatology #
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Giant cell arteritis ... Diagnosis = clinical ... diagnosis = vasculitis ... #GiantCell #arteritis ... #Symptoms #Diagnosis
Sweet Syndrome

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweets Syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by fever and inflamed
(arthritis) - ... Episcleritis Signs ... (arthritis and ... Neutrophilic rheumatoid arthritis ... #oncology
IgA Vasculitis – Henoch Scholein Purpura: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

 - Infectious Agents - 50% have
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... by neutrophilic autoimmune ... insufficiency - Joints ... Arthralgia's (common), arthritis ... #Signs #Symptoms
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
, inflammatory arthritis ... arthritis, adult-onset ... Arthritis: • ... Induced Lupus: • Symptoms ... limited to: Arthritis
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune ... , rheumatoid arthritis ... life-threatening Differential ... - Peek sign ... #management #neurology