Saturday, 3 September 2011

Spondyloarthropathies-symptoms and diagnosis


Spondylo-arthropathies group of the whole share, inflammation of the spine and other joints for each disease has some marks that makes it different from other spondyloarthropathies.

One of these diseases is Reiter's syndrome as a type of reactive arthritis happens after infection salmonella, shigella or non-gonococcal urethritis (venereal infection)

Manifestations:

It affects joints of lower limbs in the pattern of inflammation and pain, most common.

Negative Rheumatoid factors in these cases, and is treated by the use of NSAIDs and steroids.

Another form of arthritis spondylo Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) which usually affect humans, affects the spine and lower back.

Symptoms: reduce back pain and stiffness, kyphosis pain (arthralgia)

It is associated with manifestaions prostatitis, extra-articular, fibrosis, myocarditis and lung irits.

Disease ankylosing spondylitis most dependent on x-ray Sacro Monte di iliac connect show obliteration and narrow limits as spinal display type "rectangle" checkbox, the spine becomes "bamboo" If the x-ray shows these signs with citeria following one of contention as ankylosing spondylitis:

Pain after 1-bottom

2-limits movement of the chest.

3-lumbar motion limited

These are related to symptoms of an infection causing infection, genital or symptoms of Salmonella poisoning.

Steroids are contraindicated in cases of these instead of NSAIDs and salazopyrine and possibly surgery.

Both of the Reiter syndrome and AS joint presence of gene HLA B27 in blood samples.

Behcet's disease:

This disease can affect the system as follows:

-Eyes: Uveitis and iritis

-Oro-genital ulcers

-Solve a rash and pigmentation

-Neuropathy and cardiomyopathy

As an autoimmune disease, it will be using steroids or colchicine immuno suppressive drugs.

In some patients symptoms are not confined te is one of the disease and are vague (especially in the early of the disease). These parents often receive analysis with Undifferentiated Spondyloarthritis (USpA) this term is used to describe the case but did not suffer from Spondilitis falls is one of the recognized spondyloarthropathies.

Other Spondylo-arthropathies include Psoriatic arthropathy, the Whipples disease and arthrirtis associated with Crohn's disease.







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