Disorders of MSK I&II - Zaloga Flashcards
osteoclasts
- resorb bone causing release of Ca2+
- remodeling of skeleton
- macrophages clean up cellular debris
- has RANK receptor to activate NFkB for survival
osteoblasts
- form new bone
- activate osteoclasts with RANKL and M-CSF
- contain LRP5/6 receptor for WNT binding to activate beta-catenin and OPG…inhibited by sclerostin
- contain RANKL
OPG - osteoprotegrin
- decoy receptor produced by osteoblasts
- binds to RANKL preventing binding to RANK receptor
hereditary bone disorders
- Achondroplasia
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Type 1 collagen disease)
- osteopetrosis
achondroplasia
- most common dysplasia
- dwarfism
- FGFR3 mutation (always active) –> inhibiting endochondral growth –> no ossification in appendicular skeleton
- short extremities
osteogenesis imperfecta (type 1 collagen disease) aka brittle bone
- most common connective tissue disorder
- affect type 1 collagen –> brittle bones, fractures
- blue sclera, hearing loss
osteopetrosis aka marble bone disease
- brittle, fragile bones –> easy fractures
- mutations of osteoclasts resorption –> reduced resorption –> sclerosis
- adult is benign and infantile is malignant
- decreased hematopoiesis –> anemia
- adult: autosomal dominant –> defect in chloride channel function
- infant: autosomal recessive: proton pump or chloride channel dysfunction
bone and cartilage acquired disorders
- osteopenia and osteoporosis
- osteomalacia and rickets
- Paget disease
- osteitis fibrosa cystica
osteoporosis
- severe osteopenia
- primary, idiopathic, senile - low proliferative osteoblasts (low turnover), postmenopausal - low estrogen, cytokines stimulate osteoclasts with high RANKL and low OPG (high turnover)
- normal bone content, low quantity, thin trabeculae
- dexa scan measure density
- high risk fractures
rickets and osteomalacia
- vit. D deficiency –> under mineralized bone
- rickets (children) –> interferes with growth plates
- osteomalacia (adults) –> undermineralized bone
Paget disease aka osteitis deformans
- increase bone, but disordered (risk of fractures)
- lamellar bone in sclerotic phase
- high alkaline phosphatase
- mutations in SQSTM1 gene –> increase NFkB –> increase osteoclast activity
phases:
Osteolytic – osteoclasts resorbing bone
Mixed – osteoblasts enter to repair
Sclerotic – dense, weak bone due to osteoclasts breaking it down
osteitis fibrosa cystica
- loss of bone mass
- calcified structures replaced with fibrous –> weak bones
- cyst like brown tumors
- causes: PTH (increase serum Ca2+ and osteoclasts), renal disease (cannot make vit. D)
- brown tumor –> decrease in bone density/mass
fracture repair process
- rupture blood vessels –> hematoma fills gap –> fibrin mesh –> influx of inflammatory cells and fibroblasts –> new capillaries
- 1st week –> hematoma and remodel fractured ends of bone
- 2nd week –> soft tissue callus to bony callus - stiffness and strength increase with more mineralization
osteonecrosis (avascular necrosis)
- dead bone (necrotic) –> few osteocytes
- causes: fractures or corticosteroids
- vascular insufficiency
- subchondral and medullary infarcts
- trabeculae collapsed and not repaired
osteomyelitis
- inflammation of bone and marrow, sclerosis
- usually due to infection
- dead bone, fibrosis, infiltrate of inflammatory cells
- pyogenic bacteria and mycobacteria (fungal)
- mycobacterial –> tuberculous spondylitis (Pott disease)
- staph 90% cause for pyogenic
- E. coli, pseudomonas, klebsiella in IV drug and GU tract infections
- H. influenza in neonates (not vaccinated)
- sickle cell –> salmonella
- treatment: antibiotics and drainage
- acute neutrophils, chronic lymphocytes
- infection breaks periosteum –> form sinus tract
osteoarthritis aka degenerative joint disease
- degeneration of cartilage, disordered repair
- previous joint injury and obesity predisposing factors
- NO FUSION of joints
- inflammation –> chondrocyte death –> bone eburnation, thickened trabeculae, subchondral sclerosis
- fracture gaps can form synovial cysts and osteophytes
- osteophytes in Heberden’s and Bouchard’s nodes**
rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- chronic inflammation, autoimmune
- attack joints –> synovitis, lose joint space
- cartilage destruction with ankylosis (FUSION)
- osteopenia
- radial deviation of wrist, ulnar deviation of fingers
- self antigens attacked by antibodies and CD4 T cells
- cytokines: IFN-gamma (Macs), IL17 (neutrophils), monocytes
- T cells activate RANKL –> bone resorption w/ osteoclasts
- anti-CCP (citrullinated peptides) for diagnostic marker - autoantibodies
- rheumatoid factor –> IgM, IgA binding Fc on IgG activating immune system
- Pannus destroys cartilage –> fibrous –> bone ankylosis
seronegative spondyloarthropies
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- psoriatic arthritis
- reactive arthritis
swelling of fingers/toes, changes in ligament attachments, no rheumatoid factor, HLA-B27, T cell attacks antigen
Ankylosing Spondylitis aka rheumatoid spondylitis (Marie-Strumpell)
- destroy articular cartilage
- bone ankylosis (sacroiliac joints common)
- 90% HLA-B27 positive
- low back pain, spinal immobility
psoriatic arthritis
- psoriasis, chronic inflammation
- peripheral and axial joints (ex. hands, feet mainly) - distal joints
- joint destruction not frequent
- HLA-B27 and HLA-Cw6 alleles
reactive arthritis aka Reiter’s syndrome
- joint pain, swelling due to infection of another part of body
- triad: urethritis or cervicitis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis
- GU tract infection (chlamydia)
- GI tract infection (shigella, salmonella, campylobacter)
- 80% HLA-B27 positive
Gout
- crystals include monosodium urate (needle like)
- attacks of acute arthritis by crystals in/around joints –> cytokine cascade –> destroy joints
- hyperuricemia, MSU crystals cause inflammation, cytokines recruit Macs (inflammasome) to recognize crystals and cause inflammation
- repeated attacks –> tophaceous gout –> pannus destroys cartilage w/ ankylosis
- cause: hyperuricemia, renal failure, obese, EtOH
- men more affected
Pseudogout aka chondrocalcinosis
- crystals include Ca2+ pyrophosphate dehydrate, CPPD, (rhomboid shape)
- sexes/races equally affected
- activation of macrophages inflammasome –> inflammation
- more mild than gout
peripheral nerves neuropathy
- contain axons and myelin sheaths (Schwann cells)
- damage to proteins that make myelin (MBP, MPZ, PMP22, PRX) or Schwanna cells –> disease and slow nerve conduction
- pseudotumor if transected ends not close together for repair