Tuesday, February 5, 2019

uveitis can appear before arthritis

The evolution of arthritis and uveitis are not parallel, uveitis can appear before arthritis or when it is in remission. Polyarticular JRA affects 5 or more joints, girls are more frequently affected than men, usually involving small joints of hands and feet symmetrically, however it can also affect major joints including knees hips and elbows, as well as neck or joint temporo-maxilla.

A subgroup of this form affects predominantly adolescent women, positive for rheumatoid factor; in this case, the evolution and prognosis are similar to adult rheumatoid arthritis, with the presence of rheumatic nodules (hard, mobile, not painful, located under the olecranon, along the Achilles tendon, in areas subject to pressure or length of the tendinous sheaths), anemia, early onset of erosions, persistence of the disease in adulthood and poor prognosis Flekosteel. This form represents less than 10% of the cases of ARJ.

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