Polyarthritis is an inflammation of the joints

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Polyarthritis is a simultaneous or sequential inflammation of one or more joints. It occurs as an independent disease (nonspecific infection - rheumatoid arthritis), as well as infectious diseases such as rheumatism, sepsis, gout, and sometimes brucellosis, tuberculosis, and trauma.

Types of polyarthritis

• Rheumatoid;
• Crystal (salty);
• Infection.

Depending on the type of disease, the reaction of the organism, the severity of the process, there are serum, purulent, necrotic polyarthritis. It is acute and chronic.

Acute polyarthritis - The first is rheumatoid arthritis, in which the inflammation of the joints is often serum, fibrinous, and the inflammation spreads from one joint to another and spreads to the small joints. The second is epidemic polyarthritis, in which the patient has a fever, weakness, joint pain, swelling, redness of the skin, watery rashes on the toes, and limited mobility.

Of the disease chronic appearance It causes metabolic disorders, changes in the function of the endocrine glands, and inflammation of the joints.

Rheumatic polyarthritis

It is a systemic inflammatory disease of the connective tissue characterized by chronic accelerated erosive-destructive polyarthritis.
In this type of disease, the pain is specific: the large joints are injured and asymmetrical, the pain takes on a "moving" appearance, and the process alternates in the joints. When the pain moves to a new joint, the pain in the original joint decreases and movement is restored

Clinical manifestations

The onset of the disease may be different. Often it develops in a slow, dull-prolonged, but sharp or semi-sharp appearance. An important role in the clinical manifestations of the disease is arthritis syndrome - up to 85%, the remaining 15% is the extra-articular (visceral) type. The first appearance of the visceral type is associated with the spread of vascular damage - (injured organ vasculitis). Factors that trigger the onset of the disease: influenza, angina, upper respiratory tract infection, nervous tension, chills, joint damage, medications, pregnancy and childbirth.

Arthritis syndrome

The main symptom at the onset of the disease is polyarthralgia - pain without inflammation - injury to symmetrically located small (mostly wrist, palm and interphalangeal) joints (50%), partially large joints (25%) and monoarthritis (25%) occurs. The pain becomes more intense in the morning and in the first half of the day, decreasing in the evening. The pain is constant in the injured joints, and gradually worsens as the disease progresses.

Stiffness (tightness) of movement in the joints, especially in the morning or after prolonged inactivity, is one of the earliest and most persistent symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Movement in the joints is performed with great difficulty. This symptom is explained by a tumor of the tissues around the joint (periarticular), as well as a low amount of endogenous glucocorticoids in the blood.

Crystalline (saline) polyarthritis

It is characterized by the accumulation of various crystalline salts in the joints as a result of metabolic disorders.

Polyarthritis infection

It is caused by infectious diseases such as rheumatism, sepsis, gout, and sometimes brucellosis, tuberculosis, and trauma.

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