MSK path IX Flashcards
what is OA
degeneration of cartilage causing structural and functional failure of synovial joints
failure/disordered repair
what occurs in early OA
chondrocytes proliferate and the collagent II fibers cleaved causes fissures and clefts
what are joint mice
parts of cartilage that slough into joint in OA
what cap the osteophytes in OA
fibrocartilage and hyaline
what is eburnated articular surface in OA
friction on bone causing smoothign surface
Sx OA
deep achy pain that worsens with use
morning stiffness, crepitus
limited ROM
impingement on spinal foramina by osteophytes
what occurs with radiculopathy from OA
muscle spasms, radicular pain, muscle atrophy and neurologic deficits
joints commonly involved in OA
hips knees, lower lumbar and cervical vertebrae, PIPs DIPs, first CMC and first TMT
heberden nodes
prominent osteophyes at DIP joints
common in women
Dx OA
radiographically because can see osteophytes
red ragged bloody clots in joint capsule
RA
RA
chronic inflammatory disorder of autoimmune origin
may affect many tissues and organs principally attacks joints producing nonsuppurative proliferatice and inflammatory synovitis
what do hands look like in RA
ulnar deviation
What is common genetically in RA
HLA susceptibility
what cells are involved in RA
T ell B cell and Macrophages
What cells initiate immune response in RA
CD4 T cells
reacti with arthritogenic agent
what specified Tx is helpful in RA and why
TNF antagonists because TNF somehow involved in RA
What is in the synovium of RA
germinal centers with secondary follicles and many plasma cells (autoAb)
synovium in RA
thick edema hyperplastic synovial cell hyperplasia, dense inflammatory infiltrates increased vasculaity fibrinopurulent exudate osteoclastic activity in underlying bone
what is pannus
mass of edematous synovium, inflammatory cells, granulation tissue and fibroblasts that grows over articular cartilage and causes its erosion