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What are the nail changes in psoriatic arthritis?

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Pitting, Ridging, Onycholysis, Dactylitis (sausage fingers)

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Urethritis, Conjunctivitis, peripheral arthritis

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Reactive Arthritis

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An active kid with a painful knee with patellar tenderness over the ball of the knee.

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Osgood-Schlatter

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How to differentiate between septic arthritis and osteomyelitis

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Osteomyelitis may or may not present with fever. Localised pain in Osteomyelitis. Septic arthritis generally pain present at rest too

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Most common causative of Osteomyeletis

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Staph Aureus

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What do you see on Xray in Osetomyelitis?

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Lytic lesion with ring of sclerosis

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Causative organism of Septic arthritis in a kid with sickle cell disease?

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Salmonella

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Transient Arthritis is generally preceded by ________

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an acute viral infection

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Which is the only male dominant Juvenile idiopathic arthritis?

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Enthesitis related arthritis

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10
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What is craniosynostosis?

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Premature fusion of the sutures

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Osteonecrosis of subchondral bone (after damage to overlying articular cartilage) …

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Osteochondritis dissecans

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12
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Gower’s sign, Calf hypertrophy, Waddling

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Duchene’s Dystrophy

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Common complaints include ‘having to mount stairs one at a time’ and running slower than peers

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Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy

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How many types of Spinal Muscular Atrophy? And basic way to differentiate them?

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4 types - and they get diagnosed at different ages

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Flattened femoral head on XRAY

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Perthe’s

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What age is perthe’s most common at?

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4-8 years

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17
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Growing pains generally present at _____ and where?

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Night time ad in the calf shin and thigh. no functional limitation

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How do you manage growing pains?

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reassurance, supportive management (heat, massage and analgesia)

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3% of kids with transient Synovitis develop ____

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Perthe’s

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20
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Septic arthritis is most commonly caused by _____. And in a kid with sickle cell disease ____

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Staph A and Strep. pneumonia. SCD - Salmonella

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How do you Ix and manage Septic arthritis?

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  1. Investigate - Joint aspirate. need 50,000 WBC for confirmed diagnosis. U/S, XRAY, Bone scan? Septic screen

Mx: Urgent aspiration +/- Arthrotomy and washout. Flucloxacillin IV

Elevate and immibolisise - plaster or split, repeat blood tests

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In Neonates and Children Osteomyelitis occurs at the ______

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Metaphysis

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23
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Osteomyelitis is subacute and hence takes about ______

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6 weeks

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A complication of Osteomyelitis is Brodie’s abscess which is _____

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lytic centre with a ring of sclerosis

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25
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RF for Perthe’s disease?

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Steroid use! Fam history, abnormal pregnancy, LBW

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Painful hip, afebrile, tenderness of knee and anterior thigh - decreased internal rotation and abduction of the hip. Worse after exercise

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Perthe’s disease

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XRAY: Increased density of capital epiphysis, patchy osteolysis, new bone formation, remodeling and collapse or flattening of the femoral head
Remodeling and collapse or flattening of the femoral head

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Perthe’s disease

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Management of perthe’s disease?

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Goal to preserve ROM and Femoral head.

  1. Physiotherapy
  2. Brace in flexion and abduction for 2-3 years
  3. pelvic or femoral osteotomy
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Repetitive tensile stress on the insertion of patellar tendon over the tibial tuberosity causes minor avulsion at the site and subsequent inflammatory reaction

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Osgood Schlatter disease

30
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Tender lump over the tibial tuberosity - pain on resisted led extension.

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Osgood Schlatter disease

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What would you see on Knee XRAY with Osgood Schlatter disease?

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Fragmentation of the tibial tubercle

32
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Management of Osgood Schlatter disease?

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Benign, self limited condition - hence RICE. Restrict activities like cycling and basketball.

33
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Congenital Talipes Equinovarus has three points of deformity: Talipes, Equinus and Varus

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  • Talus is inverted and internally rotated
  • Ankle is plantar flexed
  • Varus - heel and forefoot are varus (supinated)
34
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How to manage Club foot (Congenital talipes equinovarus)?

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Correct deformity in the following order, forefoot adduction, ankle eversion and euqinar.
Use strapping and cast - which has to be changed every 1-2 weeks

35
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Scolios above and below the fixed primary curve to try and maintain normal position of head and pelvis - primary or secondary curve?

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Secondary!

36
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When do you start treating scoliosis?

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When the angle of deformity is more than 20 degrees.
>20 degree - brace (slow progression)
> 40 degrees - surgery

37
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Non-specifically poorly localised knee pain (can be over femoral condyles) with activity, mechanical sensation and loss of range of motion with advances lesions (with loose bodies)

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Osteochondritis Dissecans

38
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Osteonecrosis of subchondral bone (after damage to overlying cartilage)

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Osteochondritis dissecans

39
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Classic triad of Henoch Schonlein Purpura?

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Palpable purpura
Abdominal pain and
Arthritis

40
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Features of (Systemic arthritis) Still’s disease?

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Once or twice daily fever spikes for more than 2 weeks - children

Salmon coloured maculopapular rash, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly

Arthritis may occur weeks to months later

41
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Fever - with Salmon coloured maculopapular rash, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly. Arthritis occurs 4 months later

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Still’s disease

42
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How do you manage Still’s disease?

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Prednisolone

43
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Oligoarthritis is arthritis of ______ joints. And if extended?

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1-4. if extended it affects more than 4 joints after the first 6 months

44
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Anterior Uveitis is related to ______

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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Oligoarthritis

45
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ANA positive Juvenile Idiopathic arthritis?

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Oligoarticular, Polycarticular and psoriatic

46
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Knee flexion contracture, quadriceps atrophy,leg length discrepancy and growth distrubances are complications seen with which arthritis?

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Oligoarthritis

47
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RF positive in Juvenile Idiopathic arthritis. Most likely to be________

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Polyarticular arthritis

48
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Ethesitis-related arthritis tends to affect which joints?

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Weight bearing joints, especially hip and intertarsal joints

49
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Arthritis Affects Achilles tendon and plantar fascial attachment into the calcaneus, the poles of the patellae and the greater trochanters. In a male boy

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Enthesistis related arthritis

50
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Which JIA is HLA-B27 positive?

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Enthesitis related arthritis

51
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Enthesitis related arthritis in kids has a 50% risk of developing _____ in adulthood

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Ankylosing spondylitis

52
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_________ presents with Reiter’s syndrome - can’t see, can’t pee, can’t Climb a tree

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Reactive arthritis

53
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Caused by spirochete Borrelia Burgdorferi, B. Garinii, B. afzelli
- Trasmitted by Ixodes Tick
Small rodents (mice) serve as primary reservoir Incidence highest amongst 5-10 year olds
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Lyme Arthritis

54
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Arthritis related to Erythema Chronicum Migrans (Expanding, non-pruritic target lesions.

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Lyme arthritis

55
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Features of Lyme Arthritis BAKE

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Bell’s Palsy
Arthritis
Kardiac block
Erythema chronicum Migrans

56
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Extra-muscular features of Duchene Muscular dystrophy?

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Dilated cardiomyopathy and ID

57
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Diagnosis of Duchene can be excluded by testing ____ which is always elevated

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CK

58
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Mx of Duchene dystrophy?

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Steroids (Can slow progression)
Cardiac monitoring Step wise respiratory interventions
Physio, Allied health

59
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First months of life and most severe; hypotonia and weakness (affecting respiratory function, ‘paradoxical breathing’; death within first two years (usually from pneumonia)
♣ Weakness of the intercostal muscles, coupled with relatively normal diaphragmatic contractions, resulted in marked chest deformity
II (intermediate): 8-18mo; children cannot

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Type 1 SMA

60
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Due to ligamentous laxity, muscular underdevelopment and abnormal shallow slope of acetabular roof —>

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DDH

61
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What are the three pathophys features of DDH?

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  1. Ligamentous laxity
  2. Muscular underdevelopment
  3. abnormal positioning of the acetabular roof
62
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DDH leads to Hip ______ and _____-

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Hip subluxation and dislocation

63
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Test done with DDH - shows knees at unequal heights when hip’s flexed

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Galeazzi Sign

64
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What investigations would you do for DDH?

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U/S in first few months to view cartilage. Follow up radiography after 3mo

65
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SUFE is a Type I Salter Harris fracture since

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it is straight through the Growth plate

66
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SALTER HARRIS FRACTURE Classification:
S
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L
T
R
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Straight (SUFE)
Above (Growth plate and metaphysis
Lower (Through growth plate and Epiphysis)
Through all three elements
RAM - Crush injury of growth plate
67
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In SUFE, Limited movement of hip (especially________________)

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Internal rotation. Abduction, flexion

68
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Knee pain in a sporty teenager associated with intermittent swelling and locking?

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Osteochondritis Dissecans

69
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Teenage girl with characteristic knee pain on walking up and down stairs and rising from prolonged sitting

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Chrondomalacia patella

70
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Sporty teenager with pain, tenderness and swelling over the tibial tubercle

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Osgood Schlatter disease

71
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Medial knee pain due to lateral sublaxation of the patella - knee may “give way”

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Patellar Subuxation

72
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More common in athletic teenage boys - chronic anterior knee pain that worsens on running. Tender below the patella on examination

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Patellar tendonitis

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