Alt. in Musculoskeletal: Rheumatic Disorders

Question 1

Osteoarthritis

Answer 1

progressive noninflammatory disease of diarthrodial joints

Question 2

if Jane complains that her hand bones stiffen for 30 minutes accompanied with pain, what is her diagnosis? treatment?

Answer 2

OA and treatment: NSAID

Question 3

If a patients presents themselves with joint pain, fever, chills, and leukocytosis, what is your diagnosis? how do you know this?

Answer 3

infectious arthritis, i know this because the appearance of leukocytosis shows that WBCs are trying to fight off an infection in the synovial membrane

Question 4

An autoimmune inflammatory disease

Answer 4

rheumatoid arthritis

Question 5

SLE (Systematic lupus erythematous)

Answer 5

a chronic multisystem, inflammatory, autoimmune disease

Question 6

If you have lupus what other diseases are you at risk?

Answer 6

pericarditis, valvular disease, renal disease, hemolytic anemia

Question 7

What is occurring to the body during SLE?

Answer 7

there is an abnormal rxn of the body against its own tissues, cells, and serum proteins (the body as decreased self-tolerance)

Question 8

A multisystem inflammatory connective disease characterized by skin thickening and a deposition of large quantities of collagenous tissue which can result in severe fibrosis

Answer 8

scleroderma

Question 9

arthritis of the sacroiliac joints that involve the axial skeleton and in some cases peripheral joints

Answer 9

anklosying spondylitis

Question 10

Lisa just had a pharyngeal infection caused by a beta hemolytic group she now complains of having a fever and inflammation in the knees, ankles, elbows, and shoulders. What is her diagnosis?

Answer 10

acute rheumatic fever