Arthritis as a Manifestation of Systemic Disease Follow-up

  • Author: Ritu Khurana, MD; Chief Editor: Herbert S Diamond, MD   more...
 
Updated: Dec 15, 2010
 

Prognosis

In general, therapy to manage the underlying illness results in improvement or complete resolution of the joint manifestations. However, this usually is not true in patients with acromegaly. Most patients have had the disease for many years prior to diagnosis and are left with cartilage hypertrophy and severe degenerative joint disease. The arthritis of hemochromatosis does not improve with phlebotomy. Acute sarcoid arthritis does not cause joint damage.

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Contributor Information and Disclosures
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Ritu Khurana, MD  Chief of Rheumatology, Crozer Chester Medical Center

Ritu Khurana, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology, and International Society for Clinical Densitometry

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Specialty Editor Board

Kristine M Lohr, MD, MS  Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for the Advancement of Women's Health and Division of Rheumatology, Director, Rheumatology Training Program, University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Kristine M Lohr, MD, MS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology, and American Medical Women's Association

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Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD  Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine

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Lawrence H Brent, MD  Associate Professor of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University; Chair, Program Director, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Albert Einstein Medical Center

Lawrence H Brent, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Immunologists, American College of Physicians, and American College of Rheumatology

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Alex J Mechaber, MD, FACP  Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

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Chief Editor

Herbert S Diamond, MD  Professor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine; Chairman Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine, Western Pennsylvania Hospital

Herbert S Diamond, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology, American Medical Association, and Phi Beta Kappa

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This picture shows a 42-year-old white man who was admitted with acute back pain. In this frontal view, note the lower-face fullness that obscures his ears and the plethora of his cheeks.
Focal osteolytic changes seen in the phalanges in a patient with chronic sarcoid arthritis.
Osteolysis has left a lacy trabecular pattern in this phalanx (arrow).
 
 
 
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