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What causes polyarthritis? Polyarthritis can be caused by several conditions. Some people with polyarthritis have one type of arthritis that’s present throughout their body. Others have a condition that triggers arthritis in their joints as a symptom or side effect. The most common causes of polyarthritis include:
There are many different causes for polyarthritis, such as: cancer. Still’s disease. gout. sarcoidosis. Whipple’s disease. lupus. rheumatoid arthritis (RA) chikungunya. Ross...
Polyarthritis is a condition where pain and inflammation occur in multiple joints at once. We look at the symptoms, causes, and treatments. Symptoms include pain, stiffness, and tiredness.
Causes. The two main types of arthritis — osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis — damage joints in different ways. Osteoarthritis. The most common type of arthritis, osteoarthritis involves wear-and-tear damage to a joint's cartilage — the hard, slick coating on the ends of bones where they form a joint.
Diagnosing the cause of polyarthritis requires a close review of medical history and an exam. Another name for polyarthritis is polyarticular arthritis. Polyarticular means multiple joints. This article explains the various causes of polyarthritis, along with their diagnosis and common symptoms.
Inflammatory polyarthropathy/polyarthritis is defined as arthritis that affects four or more joints. It's not a type of arthritis and can be applied to many types of arthritis in which the disease process is driven by inflammation. Conditions that can cause polyarthropathy include: Rheumatoid arthritis.
Polyarthritis can be caused by mumps or rubella and other underlying degenerative joint disorders, such as osteoarthritis, cancer, Still’s disease, gout, sarcoidosis, Whipple’s disease, chikungunya or Ross River viruses.
What causes polyarthritis? Many things can cause polyarthritis including Structural arthritis, autoimmune disease, crystal arthritis, infectious arthritis, medicine-related arthritis and paraneoplastic syndromes. Structural arthritis: Osteoarthritis. Trauma. Autoimmune disease: Rheumatoid arthritis. Psoriatic arthritis. Sjogrens syndrome.
Conditions. Polyarthritis is a type of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). This type of JIA tends to cause painful swelling in fingers, toes, wrists, ankles, hips, knees, and the neck and jaw. It may come on suddenly or can steadily involve more joints over a period of months. You may feel unwell and tired and occasionally develop a slight fever.
It causes joint inflammation, leading to swelling, pain, stiffness, and loss of mobility in the affected joints. This article discusses polyarthritis and oligoarthritis,...