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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis and Heart Murmur
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with Libman-Sacks endocarditis
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Reactive arthritis
• Cardiac myxoma
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Acute rheumatic fever
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with Libman-Sacks endocarditis
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Reactive arthritis
• Cardiac myxoma
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Acute rheumatic fever
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis and Muscle Weakness
connective tissue disease
• Whipple’s disease
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), scleroderma, mixed
• Sarcoidosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Polymyositis
• HIV infection–associated arthritis
• Dermatomyositis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
connective tissue disease
• Whipple’s disease
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), scleroderma, mixed
• Sarcoidosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Polymyositis
• HIV infection–associated arthritis
• Dermatomyositis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis and Rash
• Vasculitic urticaria
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Sweet’s syndrome
• Serum sickness
• Reactive arthritis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Polymyositis
• Leprosy
• Dermatomyositis
• Chronic urticaria
• Chronic sarcoidosis
• Vasculitic urticaria
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Sweet’s syndrome
• Serum sickness
• Reactive arthritis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Polymyositis
• Leprosy
• Dermatomyositis
• Chronic urticaria
• Chronic sarcoidosis
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis and Subcutaneous Nodules
• Whipple’s disease
• Sarcoidosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Pseudogout (rare)
• Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis
• Light-chain amyloidosis (LA) (primary, multiple myeloma)
• Hemochromatosis
• Gout
• Acute rheumatic fever (ARF)
• Whipple’s disease
• Sarcoidosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Pseudogout (rare)
• Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis
• Light-chain amyloidosis (LA) (primary, multiple myeloma)
• Hemochromatosis
• Gout
• Acute rheumatic fever (ARF)
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis and Weight Loss
• Whipple’s disease
• Severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Scleroderma with intestinal bacterial overgrowth
• Reactive arthritis
• RA with vasculitis
• RA or psoriatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis with amyloidosis
• HIV infection
• Enteropathic arthritis (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis)
• Cancer
• Blind loop syndrome
• Whipple’s disease
• Severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Scleroderma with intestinal bacterial overgrowth
• Reactive arthritis
• RA with vasculitis
• RA or psoriatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis with amyloidosis
• HIV infection
• Enteropathic arthritis (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis)
• Cancer
• Blind loop syndrome
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis, Axial Skeleton
• Spondylosis deformans
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Reiter’s syndrome
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Juvenile RA
• Infection
• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
• Degenerative disease of the nucleus pulposus
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Alkaptonuria
• Spondylosis deformans
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Reiter’s syndrome
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Juvenile RA
• Infection
• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
• Degenerative disease of the nucleus pulposus
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Alkaptonuria
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Arthritis, Fever, and Rash
• Vasculitic urticaria
• Secondary syphilis, Lyme borreliosis
• Rubella, parvovirus B19
• Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D and periodic fever syndrome
• Gonococcemia, meningococcemia
• Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)
• Adult acute rheumatic fever, adult Still’s disease, adult Kawasaki’s disease
• Acute sarcoidosis
• Vasculitic urticaria
• Secondary syphilis, Lyme borreliosis
• Rubella, parvovirus B19
• Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D and periodic fever syndrome
• Gonococcemia, meningococcemia
• Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)
• Adult acute rheumatic fever, adult Still’s disease, adult Kawasaki’s disease
• Acute sarcoidosis
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Granulomatous Arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Primary or metastatic synovial tumors
• Metastatic cancer
• Fungal arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Primary or metastatic synovial tumors
• Metastatic cancer
• Fungal arthritis
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Serum sickness
• Rheumatic fever
• Lyme arthritis
• Infectious causes of fever
• Drug reaction
• “Viral arthritis”
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Serum sickness
• Rheumatic fever
• Lyme arthritis
• Infectious causes of fever
• Drug reaction
• “Viral arthritis”
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Symptoms and Signs - Differential Diagnosis of Monoarticular and Oligoarticular Arthritis
• Traumatic joint injury
• Septic arthritis (Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, meningococci, streptococci, Streptococcus pneumoniae, enteric gram-negative bacilli)
• Monarticular or oligoarticular flare of an inflammatory polyarticular rheumatic disease (rheumatoid arthritis [RA], psoriatic arthritis, Reiter’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE])
• Hemarthrosis
• Crystalline-induced arthritis (gout, pseudogout; calcium oxalate, hydroxyapatite, and other basic calcium/phosphate crystals)
• Traumatic joint injury
• Septic arthritis (Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, meningococci, streptococci, Streptococcus pneumoniae, enteric gram-negative bacilli)
• Monarticular or oligoarticular flare of an inflammatory polyarticular rheumatic disease (rheumatoid arthritis [RA], psoriatic arthritis, Reiter’s syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE])
• Hemarthrosis
• Crystalline-induced arthritis (gout, pseudogout; calcium oxalate, hydroxyapatite, and other basic calcium/phosphate crystals)