Arthritis Classifications and Auto-immunity Flashcards
Arthritis can be classified into which two main categories?
- Inflammatory
- Non-inflammatory
What are the four types of inflammatory arthritis?
- Seropositive
- Seronegative
- Infectious
- Crystal induced
What are the five types of seropostive inflammatory arthritis?
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Lupus
- Scleroderma
- Vasculitis
- Sjogren’s
What are the four types of seronegative inflammatory arthritis?
- Anklosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Inflammatory bowel (enteropathic) arthritis
What are seropositive conditions?
Conditions in which there is auto-antibody production
This is characteritic of many rheumatological conditions
Loss of immune regulation (autoimmune condition) is due to which two factors?
- Genetic predisposition
- Environmental triggers
Anti-CCP antibodies are associated with which condition?
Rheumatoid arthritis
Anti-nuclear antibodies are associated with which conditions?
- SLE
- Sjogren’s syndrome
- Systemic sclerosis
- Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
- Autoimmune liver disease
Anti-double stranded DNA antibody (Anti-dsDNA) is associated with which condition?
SLE
Anti-Sm antibody is associated with which condition?
SLE
Anti-Ro antibody is associated with which conditions?
- Sjogren’s
- SLE
Anti-La antibodies are associated with which condition?
Sjogren’s
Anti-centromere antibody is associated with which condition?
Systemic sclerosis (limited)
Anti-Scl-70 antibody is associated with which condition?
Systemic sclerosis (diffuse)
Anti-RNP antibody is associated with which conditions?
- SLE
- Mixed connective tissue disease