Causes of Rheumatic conditions
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causes of Rheumatic conditions:
The causes of rheumatic diseases vary depending on the
type of disease. Researchers have pinpointed the cause or causes of some
rheumatic diseases, such as infectious arthritis and gout.
The causes of most rheumatic diseases are still under
investigation. In osteoarthritis, excessive stress on the joint, from
repeated injury or inherited cartilage weakness, may play a role. In
lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and scleroderma, the combination of genetic
factors that determine susceptibility, the influence of certain
hormones, and environmental triggers are believed to be important.
Scientists are also studying the risk factors that
determine why some people develop rheumatic diseases and others do not.
For example, being overweight increases the likelihood that a person
will develop osteoarthritis. The chance of developing osteoarthritis
also increases with age. Genes and family history play a role in many
rheumatic diseases including gout, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus,
ankylosing spondylitis, scleroderma, and some others.
Certain rheumatic conditions, such as lupus, rheumatoid
arthritis, scleroderma, and fibromyalgia, are more common among women
(see below for details). This indicates that hormones or other
male-female differences play a role in the development of these
conditions. (Source: excerpt from Questions and Answers About Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases: NIAMS)
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Arthritis – Multiple Joints:
Differential Diagnosis
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- Infectious
–Reactive arthritis (postenteric or genital including Reiter syndrome, postviral, poststreptococcal)
–Acute rheumatic fever (ARF): Migratory, painful; usually affects large joints; diagnosis is based on Jones criteria, which includes five major (arthritis, carditis, Sydenham chorea, erythema marginatum, subcutaneous nodules) and several minor (fever, arthralgia, elevated ESR or CRP, prolonged P-R interval) manifestations
–Lyme disease: Arthritis is monoarticular or oligoarticular, is rarely symmetric, and is the second most common manifestation of Lyme disease after erythema migrans
–SBE-related arthritis
–Septic polyarthritis (unusual)
- Rheumatic
–Polyarticular JRA: Arthritis in five or more joints in first 6 months of disease, insidious onset, symmetric involvement, may be RF+ (erosive, similar to adult RA) or RF-
–Systemic-onset JRA: Presents with severe systemic involvement (fever, rash, serositis), which may precede the arthritis, usually oligoarticular
–Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis (JAS): Initially affects lower extremity joints; later affects axial skeleton, also affects tendons
–Psoriatic arthritis
–Arthritis of IBD: Usually more transient than JRA
–SLE: May present only with arthritis, may be misdiagnosed as JRA
–Other connective tissue diseases (scleroderma)
–Vasculitis (HSP, Kawasaki disease)
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Malignancy such as leukemia
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Other systemic disorders: Serum sickness, sarcoidosis, Behçet disease, Ehler-Danlos syndrome, mucopolysaccharidoses, Noonan syndrome, Turner syndrome
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Medications (minocyline, carbamazapine)
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Sickle cell disease
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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007
Arthritis – Single Joint:
Differential Diagnosis
(In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- Septic arthritis
–Rapid diagnosis critical: Untreated septic arthritis causes irreversible joint and bone destruction
–Usually presents hyperacutely with very tender, swollen, warm, red joint with severely restricted range of motion
–Usual pathogens: Haemophilus influenzae type b, Staphylococcus aureus, group B strep in neonates, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in adolescents; fungal and mycobacterial arthritis are seen rarely, may have chronic course
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Lyme arthritis
–Second most common manifestation of Lyme disease (after erythema migrans)
–Monoarthritis of a knee occurs in about two-thirds of children with Lyme disease
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Reactive arthritis
–Probably the most common etiology of childhood rheumatic diseases
–Transient sterile arthritis following a bacterial GI infection
–Usually full resolution, but a few children have a chronic course
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Trauma, overuse, fracture
–Often acute onset with significant pain
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Malignancy such as leukemia, neuroblastoma and osteogenic sarcoma
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Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)
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Spondyloarthropathies (SpA)
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Congenital hip dysplasia
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Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
–Most common adolescent hip disorder
–Separation of the femoral growth plate
–More common in obese males
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Spontaneous osteonecrosis of the joint
–Mostly in hip (Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease), shoulder, and knee
–More common in males
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Internal structural abnormality
–Discoid meniscus, osteochondritis dissecans, synovial chondromatosis
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Hemarthrosis due to trauma, bleeding disorder such as hemophilia, or benign tumors such as hemangiomas and pigmented villonodular synovitis
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Periodic fever syndromes such as familial Mediterranean fever
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Source: In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms, 2007
Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Rheumatic fever appears to be a hypersensitivity reaction to a group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection, in which antibodies manufactured to combat streptococci react and produce characteristic lesions at specific tissue sites, especially in the heart and joints. Because very few persons (3%) with streptococcal infections ever contract rheumatic fever, altered host resistance must be involved in its development or recurrence. Although rheumatic fever tends to be familial, this may merely reflect contributing environmental factors. For example, in lower socioeconomic groups, incidence is highest in children between ages 5 and 15, probably as a result of malnutrition and crowded living conditions. This disease strikes generally during cool, damp weather in the winter and early spring. In the United States, it’s most common in the northern states.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease:
Causes
(Handbook of Diseases)
Rheumatic fever appears to be a hypersensitivity reaction to a group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection, in which antibodies manufactured to combat streptococci react and produce characteristic lesions at specific tissue sites, especially in the heart and joints. About 3% of patients with untreated streptococcal infections develop rheumatic fever.
Although rheumatic fever tends to run in families, this may merely reflect contributing environmental factors. It primarily affects children between ages 6 and 15, usually within 1 to 5 weeks after strep throat or scarlet fever. The disease strikes most often during cool, damp weather in winter and early spring. In the United States, it’s most common in the northern states.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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