USMLE Rheum Flashcards
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Adhesive capsulitis
Causes:
Rotator cuff tendinopathy, subacromial bursitis, stroke, diabetes, humeral head fx
Tx:
Self limited condition / responds well to conservative managemnt / Complete rest may worsen joint stiffneing and promote adhesions, NSAIDs 1-2 weeks to decrease pain.
Recommend RANGE OF MOTION excercises to prevent worsening of AC
anti-U1-ribonucleoprotein (RNP) antibodies
mixed connective tissue disease
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is the most common disease-related cause of death
Right heart cath - yah bitch
Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
Treatment for following:
First venous thrombosis:
Recurrent venous thrombosis:
Arterial thrombosis:
CVA:
- First venous thrombosis: INR of 2-3
- Recurrent venous thrombosis: INR > 3
- Arterial thrombosis: INR > 3
- CVA: 81 mg/day ASA
Asthma and
- Pulmonary opacities on CXR, sinusitis and peripheral eosinophillia,no renal Sx
- Chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyposis, esosinophillia, no pulmonary infiltrates or renal envolvement
- Cough, fever, dypnea 50% asthma but no other organ involvment
- Renal involvement (GN), Vasculitis (granulomatosis w polyangitis, mononeuritis multiplex and Upper resp dz (sinus, ear, nose and throat involvemnt), peripheral eosinophilia
- Renal involvemnet / UPPER respiratory ANCA Sinusitis
- Allergic bronchopulmnoary aspergillosis
- Aspirin exacerbated respiratory dz
- chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
- Churg Strauss vasculitis Ashtma
- Wegener’s granulomatosis Sinusitis
Axial (spine) involvment
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (cervical spine)
- OA
- Infection (TB, Fungus, Staph, etc.)
Back pain Red Flags
- > 50 yrs
- Hx of Cancer
- Unexplained weight loss
- Pain greater then one month
- Night time pain
- Unresponsive to prev therapy
- Neurlogic Sx
- Hx IV Drug use
- Recent UTI
Best geriatric preoperative assessment?
Frailty determination:
Cardiovascular health study index:
- Weight loss of > 5 % over the last year
- Exhaustion with normal activity
- physical weakness
- slow walking speed (walking 15 fee in > 6-7 sec)
- Decreased physical acitivity
Frail : 4-5 points
Non frial: 0-1 piont
Charcot joint : Diabetic neuropathic arthropathy
Tx:
- Casting and avoiding weight bearing
- Anti resorption therapy with bisphosphonates is also useful in some patients.
Churg-Strauss syndrome
Systemic vasculitis that most often occurs in the setting of antecedent asthma, allergic rhinitis
Eosinophilia / migratory pulmonary infiltrates / purpuric skin rash / and mononeuritis multiplex; fever, arthralgia, and myalgia also are common presenting features.
Up to 40% have p-ANCA w antimyeloperoxidase antibodies. Patients who have positive ANCAs are more likely to have glomerulonephritis, alveolar hemorrhage, mononeuritis multiplex, and purpura
Churg-Strauss Syndrome:
Middle-aged pt with allergies/asthma
eosinophilia > 10% WBC
and systemic illness
Dx: Obtain biopsy of any involved tissue
Tx: Steroids
Classification of Synovial Effusions
Normal
- Clear - < 25% PMN)
Noninflammatory
- Clear-Yellow - 200-2,000 (< 25% PMN)
Inflammatory Cloudy
- Yellow - 2,000-100,000 (> 50% PMN)
Septic
- Purulent > 50,000 - (> 75% PMN)
Compression Fx
Most are silent / some experience pain for 2-6 weeks.
Tx:
Supportive Care:
- no evidence that Back brace or Vaertebroplasty does any good
Pain Tx:
- NSAIDS / Opioids
- If fails then intranasal calcitonin for 2-4 weeks can provide help
contraception options for a woman with systemic lupus erythematosus
Consider
- systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- antiphospholipid syndrome
- osteoporosis
NO Estrogen-containing hormonal contraceptives are contraindicated in patients with antiphospholipid antibodie
_YES _Progesterone-containing intrauterine device
CREST syndrome greatest risk of developing?
- Calcinosis
- Raynaud’s phenomenon
- Esophageal dysmotility
- Scalerodactyly
- Telangiectasias
Pulmonary hypertension often without interstitial fibrosis
Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis is characterized by
- Cutaneous palpable purpura
- Mononeuritis multiplex
- an immune complex glomerulonephritis; serum C3 and C4 levels are usually low
de Quervian tenosynovitis

- Due to thickening and stenosis of the synovial sheath from chronic overuse of the wrist or hand, trauma or repetitive activity
- pain on the radial side of the wrist and positive Finklestien maneuver.
Diagnose adult-onset Still disease
Quotidian fever, evanescent rash, arthritis, and multisystem involvement.
Diagnosis is based on typical clinical presentation with exclusion of infection and malignancy, particularly leukemia and lymphoma.
Laboratory abnormalities in patients with leukocytosis, anemia, thrombocytosis, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, elevated serum ferritin level (≥1000 ng/mL [1000 µg/L]), and abnormal liver chemistry tests; antinuclear antibodies and rheumatoid factor typically are negative.

Diagnose Löfgren syndrome.
Type of acute sarcoidosis
Triad
- Bilateral hilar LAD
- Oligoathritis
- Erythema nodosun
DIPS Involvement - NO RA
- Spondyloarthropathy (Reiter’s, Psoriatic)
- OA
- Crystalline
Enthesitis, dactylitis, tenosynovitis, and cutaneous involvement such as nail pitting

Psoriatic arthriti
Familial Mediterranean fever
- Abdominal pain / in 95% of all patients and may lead to unnecessary laparotomy.
- Joint attacks mainly occur in One large joints 75%
- Chest attacks 40%
- Scrotal attacks 5%
- Myalgia (rare in isolation)
- Erysipeloid (a skin reaction on the legs, rare in isolation)
- Fever (25%)
Felty’s Syndrome
Triad
-
RA
- Sever erosive joint dz
- Rheumatoid nodules
- Vasculitis
- Neutropenia
- Splenomegaly
- DX
- Anti CCP/RA
- Elevated ESR
GOT Hip pain ?
- Osteoarthritis
- Trochanteric bursitis (Most common)
- Meralgia paresthtica
- Occult hip fx
Osteoarthritis
- Groid pain / morning stiffness / aggrevated with movement
Trochanteric Bursitis
- Point tenderness in mid or superior trochanger / Lateral hip pain aggravated by direct pressure / normal ROM
Meralgia paresthetica
- Burning pain and paresthesia over the upper outer thigh
Occult hip fracture
- Severe and acute pain with internal and/or external hip rotation
- Unable to bear weight
Drug induced lupus
Meds?
- Procanamide
- Hydralazine
- Lower risk Infliximab
- Etanercept
- Isoniazid
- Minocycline