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Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a long-term inflammatory arthritis that occurs in people affected by the autoimmune disease psoriasis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The classic feature of psoriatic arthritis is swelling of entire fingers and toes with a sausage-like appearance ("sausage digit"). [ 3 ]
Lewy body dementia (LBD) is an umbrella term for two similar and common subtypes of dementia: [1] dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). [2][3][4][5] Both are characterized by changes in thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. [1] The two conditions have similar features and may have similar causes, and are ...
Vascular dementia. Vascular dementia is dementia caused by a series of strokes. [ 2 ][ 4 ] Restricted blood flow due to strokes reduces oxygen and glucose delivery to the brain, causing cell injury and neurological deficits in the affected region. [ 6 ] Subtypes of vascular dementia include subcortical vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia ...
Psoriatic arthritis is a type of arthritis that develops in some people who have psoriasis, which is a chronic autoimmune disease of the skin. Psoriatic arthritis can be mild or severe. It can ...
SAPHO syndrome includes a variety of inflammatory bone disorders that may be associated with skin changes. These diseases share some clinical, radiologic, and pathologic characteristics. An entity initially known as chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis was first described in 1972. [ 1 ] Subsequently, in 1978, [ 2 ] several cases of were ...
t. e. Organic personality disorder (OPD) or secondary personality change, is a condition described in the ICD-10 and ICD-11 respectively. It is characterized by a significant personality change featuring abnormal behavior due to an underlying traumatic brain injury or another pathophysiological medical condition affecting the brain.
The classification of mental disorders, also known as psychiatric nosology or psychiatric taxonomy, is central to the practice of psychiatry and other mental health professions. The two most widely used psychiatric classification systems are chapter V of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10), produced by the World ...
Rheumatology. Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (or sometimes RS3PE) is a rare syndrome identified by symmetric polyarthritis, synovitis, acute pitting edema (swelling) of the back of the hands and/or feet, and a negative serum rheumatoid factor. [2] If no underlying disorder can be identified (idiopathic RS3PE ...