- RA Criteria: (if 5 out of following are present for > 6 weeks);
- morning stiffness;
- pain on motion, or tenderness in at least one joint;
- swelling (soft tissue thickening or fluid, not bony overgrowth alone)
in at least one joint;
- swelling of at least one other joint (any interval free of joint
symptoms between the two joint;
- poor mucin precipitate from
synovial fluid
- characteristic histologic changes in
Synovium
- characteristic histologic changes in
nodules
- Exclusion Criteria:
- rash of
systemic lupus erythematosus
- high concentration of LE cells, or other clear-cut evidence of lupus;
- histologic evidence of periarteritis nodosa;
- clinical features of dermatomyositis,
scleroderma;
-
Acute Rheumatic Fever;
- gouty arthritis
-
Infectious arthritis
-
Reiter's syndrome
- shoulder-hand syndrome
- hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
- neuroarthropathy
- alkaptonuria
-
sarcoidosis
- multiple myeloma
- erythema nodosum
-
leukemia, lymphoma, or agammaglobulinemia
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Review Articles: Current Concepts: Acute Monoarthritis.
Review Article: Current Concepts: Polyarthritis And Fever.
