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Arthritis

Arthritis (arthritis; Greek arthron – the joint relating to a joint + lat. it (словообраз. a suffix) – inflammatory process) – an inflammation of a joint or some of its elements.

Types of arthritises:

  • Allergic – develops as reversible manifestation of the general allergic reaction;
  • Brucellous – the general name of various forms of arthritises against the background of a brucellosis;
  • Secondary – the general name of the arthritises developing against the background of allergic diseases, some diffusion diseases of connecting fabric, diseases of blood, malignant tumors;
  • Gemofilichesky – arthritises of preferential large joints at hemophilia;
  • Purulent – develops at penetration into a joint of causative agents of a pyogenic infection;
  • Gonorrheal – develops at gonorrhea;
  • Dysenteric – infectious and allergic oligo-or monoarthritis, develops against the background of dysentery during recovery;
  • Dystrophic – is characterized by degenerative and aseptic inflammatory changes in joint fabrics;
  • Infectious and allergic – develops as manifestation of the general allergic reactions to infection with any microorganism;
  • Infectious (synonym: arthritis infectious specific) – the arthritises caused by causative agents of infectious diseases;
  • Medicamentous – the allergic arthritis arising because of hypersensitivity to any drug;
  • Migrating – consistently affects several joints;
  • Paracarcinomatous – arises as a complication of a malignant tumor of any localization;
  • Gouty – develops against the background of gout because of adjournment of urate salts in joint fabrics;
  • Professional – the dystrophic arthritis arising under the influence of adverse professional factors;
  • Psoriasis – chronic arthritis against the background of psoriasis;
  • Rheumatic – arises during the rheumatic attack;
  • Revmatoidopodobny – the arthritises reminding a pseudorheumatism, but relating to other nosological forms;
  • Erysipelatous serous – develops as a complication of erysipelatous damage of skin against the background of distribution of a contagium on lymphatic ways;
  • Glanderous – develops as a complication at a sapa;
  • Septic – develops against the background of sepsis;
  • Serofibrinous – is characterized by accumulation of serofibrinous exudate in a joint cavity;
  • Serous – is characterized by accumulation of serous exudate in a joint cavity;
  • Syphilitic – develops at the acquired or inborn syphilis;
  • Sklerodermichesky – develops against the background of at a system scleroderma;
  • Serumal – 1) is observed at a serum disease; 2) it is caused by development in a joint of a phenomenon of Artyus;
  • Fungoidny – develops against the background of an actinomycosis, a zymonematosis or a coccidiosis;
  • Exudative – proceeds with education in an exudate joint cavity.
 
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