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Joint Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Monoarthritis
 • Septic
 • Crystalline
     - Gout
Undifferentiated Polyarthritis ... disease, Symmetric Polyarthritis ... should have other symptoms ... arthropathies #polyarthritis
Sarcoidosis 
Non-caseating granulomas (Composed of T-helper & inflammatory cells) 
Clinical:
 • Disease fatal in 10% of
, weight loss, polyarthritis ... Sarcoidosis #Diagnosis #Symptoms
Approach to Joint Pain - Arthritis Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Versus Noninflammatory Pain
 • Is it inflammatory
oligoarthritis, polyarthritis ... constitutional symptoms ... spondyloarthritis POLYARTHRITIS ... Chronic Inflammatory Polyarthritis ... Oligoarthritis #Polyarthritis
Psoriatic Arthritis: Pathogenesis and Clinical findings

In tendons and connective tissues:
 • Enthesitis  - Pain/tenderness over
Symmetric polyarthritis ... diagnosis #signs #symptoms
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
 -
yrs - Cranial symptoms ... vision loss) Polyarteritis
Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN): Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Medical Comorbidities Malignancies (most commonly hairy-cell leukemia)
Immunogenetic Predisposition: patient is
Polyarteritis Nodosa ... Diagnosis #Signs #Symptoms
Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary
Overview: chronic, inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints of hands/feet, knees, shoulders
Signs & Symptoms:
inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis ... shoulders Signs & Symptoms
Sarcoidosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology
1) High incidence in Scandinavian countries (11-24 cases per 100,000 individuals
Features: • Many symptoms ... patients have no symptoms ... syndromes: (distinct symptoms ... fever, migratory polyarthritis ... Management #Signs #Symptoms
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
ethnicities Symptoms ... + Nonspecific symptoms ... • Inflammatory polyarthritis ... Associated with Polyarteritis
Elevated Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) - Differential Diagnosis Framework

LDH is a cytoplasmic enzyme present in tissues throughout
Vasculitis: • Polyarteritis ... associated with any symptoms