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What are solid joints?

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Joints that tightly connect bones for structural strength

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What are synovial joints for?

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Allow space for motion

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What type of collagen comprises articular cartilage?

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II

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What chemical is secreted from the synovium to lubricate the joint?

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Hyaluronic acid

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What is degenerative joint disease?

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Progressive degeneration of articular cartilage, usually d/t wear and tear

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What are the major risk factors for degenerative joint disease?

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  • Age
  • Obesity
  • Trauma
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What are the joints that are classically affected with degenerative joint disease?

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Hip
Lower lumbar spine
DIPs
PIPs

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How does degenerative joint disease present?

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Joint stiffness in the morning, that worsens during the day

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What happens to joint pain from degenerative joint disease as patients go about their day?

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Worsens

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What are the hallmarks of degenerative joint disease?

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  • Disruption of cartilage, with fragments broken off
  • Joint space narrowing
  • Osteopenia
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What is the eburnation that occurs with degenerative joint disease?

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wearing of the bone down from bone-bone contact

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What are the osteophytes that are seen with DJD? Where are they usually seen?

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Outgrowths of bone in joint spaces, classically in the DIP and PIPs

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What is the HLA haplotype that is associated with RA?

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HLA-DR4

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What is the hallmark of the joints with RA?

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Pannus formation 2/2 chronic synovial inflammation (inflamed granulation tissue)

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What happens to joints with untreated RA?

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Destruction of cartilage and ankylosis of joints

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What are the consequences of myofibroblast cells in the pannus of RA?

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Cause contraction of the joint (ankylosis), or movement of the joint in difference directions

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What happens to the pain associated with RA as patients go through their day?

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Improves with activity (opposite of OA)

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Is the joint involvement with RA symmetric or asymmetric? How about for OA?

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RA = symmetric
OA = asymmetric
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Which hand joints are affected with RA, and which with OA?

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RA = MCPs
OA = DIPs

PIPs are affected in both

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What characterizes rheumatoid nodules?

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Central area of necrosis surrounded by epithelioid histiocytes

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What are the two major pulmonary effects of RA?

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  • Interstitial lung fibrosis

- Pleural effusions

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What is rheumatoid factor?

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IgM autoantibody against the Fc portion of IgG

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What are the cells that are found in the synovial fluid?

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PMNs with protein

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What are the two major systemic complications from RA?

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  • Anemia of chronic disease

- Secondary amyloidosis

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What is serum amyloid converted into?
AA, which is then depositied into tissues
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What are the three major characteristics of seronegative spondyloarthropathies?
- Lack of rheumatoid factor - Axial skeleton involvement - HLA-B27
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Who is the classic patient that has ankylosing spondylitis?
Young males
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What is the usual presentation of ankylosing spondylitis?
LBP with fusion of the vertebrae ("Bamboo spine")
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What are the ophthalmologic complications from ankylosing spondylitis?
Uveitis
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What are the vascular effects associated with ankylosing spondylitis?
Aortitis, which causes aortic regurg d/t pulling of aorta walls from inflammation on the aortic valves
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What are the classic symptoms in Reactive (Reiter's) arthritis?
Arthritis Urethritis Conjunctivitis
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What are the infections that usually set off a case of Reiter's syndrome?
- Chlamydia infection | - GI infection
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What are the joints that are classically affected with psoriatic arthritis?
Axial and peripheral, particularly the DIPs
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What is the classic hand findings of psoriatic arthritis?
Dactylitis (sausage finger)
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What is the most common bacterial cause of infectious arthritis?
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
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Who usually gets infectious arthritis 2/2 Staph aureus infx?
Older children and adults
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Who usually gets infectious arthritis 2/2 Neisseria gonorrhea infx?
Young adults
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Is infectious arthritis usually mono or polyarticular?
Monoarticular
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What are the classic features of infectious arthritis?
Single, warm, erythematous joint with RROM and systemic symptoms
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What are the labs that are elevated with infectious arthritis?
Leukocytosis | Elevated ESR
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What is the chemical that is depositied in joints with gout?
Monosodium urate
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What are the two purines?
Adenosine | Guanine
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What are the DNA products that contribute to uric acid formation?
Purines - adenosine - Guanine
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What is AMP broken down into? What then?
Hypoxanthine, then xanthine
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What is GMP broken down into? What then?
Guanine, then xanthine
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What is the enzyme that converts xanthine into uric acid?
Xanthine oxidase
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What are the two basic processes that lead to gout?
Under excretion, vs overproduction
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What is primary gout?
Idiopathic hyperuricemia
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What is the enzyme that recycles hypoxanthine and guanine?
HGRPT
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What is the enzyme that has increased activity in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome?
PRPP
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What are the causes of secondary gout? (3)
- Leukemia / MPDs - Lesch-Nyhan syndrome - Renal insufficiency
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The monosodium urate crystals that are deposited in gout activate what cells to produce the pain?
PMNs
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What is podagra?
Acute gout in the great toe
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Why is it that EtOH consumption increases gout?
EtOH competes with uric acid for excretion
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Why is it that meat precipitate gout attacks?
Taking in high levels of DNA
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What are tophi?
Uric acid crystal deposits in soft tissue or joints
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How does chronic gout lead to chronic renal disease?
Uric acid crystals deposit into tubules
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What are the crystal shapes with monosodium urate? How do they appear undo polarized light?
Needle shaped | Negatively birefringent under light
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What is the color of urate crystals under parallel polarized light? What about perpendicular?
``` Parallele = yellow Perp = blue ```
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What is pseudogout?
Deposition of Calcium pyrophosphate in tissues, leading to gout like s/sx
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What are the shape of the crystals with pseudogout? How do they appear under polarized light?
- Rhomboid | - Positive birefringence under polarized light

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