Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Rheumatic Disease

BMJ ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 2 (3853) ◽  
pp. 884-884
Author(s):  
H. W. Crowe
1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1603-1612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Ytterberg ◽  
Maren L. Mahowald ◽  
Sharon R. Woods

1968 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 48-48

Soon after it was marketed in 1966, we discussed ibufenac (Dytransin - Boots), an anti-inflammatory analgesic intended for the treatment of chronic rheumatic disease (DTB 1966, 4, 46). In February 1968 it was withdrawn, after what must have been a difficult and painful decision for the makers. A letter from Boots’ Marketing Manager to general practitioners and consultants stated that ‘in the light of a review of the status of Dytransin and of current medical opinion on drugs which have any hepatotoxic activity, it is now considered desirable to withdraw the drug from the market’. No facts were given.


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 2675-2679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer Kilic ◽  
Ozgur Kasapcopur ◽  
Yildiz Camcioglu ◽  
Haluk Cokugras ◽  
Nil Arisoy ◽  
...  

Rheumatology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Patrick D W Kiely ◽  
Mark E Lloyd

Abstract Ankle arthritis is a useful clinical signpost to differential diagnosis in rheumatic disease. Biomechanical features and differences in cartilage physiology compared with the knee may confer protection of the ankle joint from factors predisposing to certain arthritides. The prevalence of ankle OA is low, and usually secondary to trauma. Primary OA of the ankle should be investigated for underlying causes, especially haemochromatosis. New presentations of inflammatory mono/oligo arthritis involving the ankle are more likely due to undifferentiated arthritis or spondyloarthritis than RA, and gout over CPPD. The ankle is often involved in bacterial and viral causes of septic arthritis, especially bacterial, chikungunya and HIV infection, but rarely tuberculosis. Periarticular hind foot swelling can be confused with ankle arthritis, exemplified by Lofgren’s syndrome and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy where swelling is due to subcutaneous oedema and osteitis respectively, and the ankle joint is rarely involved.


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