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Extra-articular and Other Conditions Associated with Joint Pain

Eyes
  • Iritis or uveitis - Spondyloarthropathies, Sarcoidosis,
Rheumatic fever • Amyloidosis ... - SLE Neurologic ... neuropathy - SLE, Amyloidosis ... , Vasculitis (e.g ... Macroglossia - Amyloidosis
Classification of Vasculitis 
Vasculitis of large vessels 
 - Arteritis temporalis (giant-cell arteritis) 
 - Takayasu
large vessels - Arteritis ... temporalis (giant-cell arteritis ... - Takayasu arteritis ... - Inflammatory ... induced by chronic
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Injury to Root Chronic ... • Inflammatory ... Valve Dysfunction Chronic ... , Behcet Syndrome ... Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Causes of Diffuse Lung Disease. 
Collagen vascular 
 - Scleroderma 
 - Rheumatoid arthritis 
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- Rheumatoid arthritis ... - Toxic gas Vasculitides ... Churg-Strauss syndrome ... - Giant cell arteritis ... Infectious - Chronic
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes and Mimics - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
90%:
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ANCA Associated Vasculitis ... - Anti-GBM Disease ... , Behcet's Disease ... , Inflammatory Myositis ... failure - Cancer: Amyloidosis
Skin Conditions Associated with Joint Pain

Rash
	• Human parvovirus B19 infection

Malar rash
	• SLE
	• Human parvovirus B19 infection
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Dermatomyositis Erythema chronicum ... Scleroderma • Amyloidosis ... Hypersensitivity vasculitis ... Antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome ... • Vasculitis
Causes of Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) - Differential Diagnosis
 • Infection: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Abscess, Endocarditis,
Lemierre's syndrome ... Non-infectious Inflammatory ... , Vasculitis (Temporal ... arteritis is prob ... the most common vasculitis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
, small-vessel vasculitis ... (25-75%): Inflammatory ... , retinal vasculitis ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Recurrent and chronic
Etiologies of Peripheral Neuropathy
 • Metabolic / Nutritional: DiabetesB12 deficiency, Uremia/ESRD, Hypothyroidism
 • Medication-induced: ART, Antibiotics,
, Leprosy • Inflammatory ... Guillain-Barre, Vasculitis ... , Sarcoidosis, Amyloidosis ... Paraprotein-associated (POEMS syndrome ... diagnosis #causes #neurology
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
and less common diseases ... Inflammatory causes ... polychondritis • Behcet disease ... ANCA-associated vasculitides ... #neurology #inflammatory