Polyarthritis

(medicine) Inflammation of several joints simultaneously.

Simultaneous inflammation of several joints.

Inflammation of several joints. More common in very young animals because of the frequency of navel infection and bacteremia and the immaturity of the arthrodial tissues. See also arthritis.

• chlamydial p. — caused by Chlamydophila pecorum and characterized by joint enlargement, lameness, stiff gait, fever, conjunctivitis, a high morbidity and mortality in young animals. There are also lesions and signs of involvement of other organs, e.g. pneumonia, encephalomyelitis and interstitial focal nephritis. An important disease of feedlot lambs.
• chronic villous p. — chronic inflammation of the synovial membrane of several joints.
• crystal-induced p. — see gout, pseudogout.
• feline chronic progressive p. — see periosteal proliferative polyarthritis (below).
• Greyhound p. — an erosive joint disease of unknown etiology occurring in young Greyhounds. See greyhound polyarthritis.
• immune-mediated p. — see immune-mediated arthritis.
• inherited p. — a disease of young Akita dogs, in which there is sytemic illness with fever, lethargy and peripheral lymphadenopathy, as well as polyarthritis.
• p.–meningitis syndrome — an immune-mediated, nonerosive polyarthritis, seen in Weimaraners and several other breeds. There is fever and spinal pain.
• mycoplasmal p. — Mycoplasma hyorhinis and M. hyosynoviae cause polyarthritis in pigs, the first in suckling pigs in which there may also be a serositis, the latter more common in older growing pigs. M. agalactiae bovis causes polyarthritis in feedlot cattle, M. mycoides var. capri causes polyarthritis and serositis in goats and M. capricolum causes polyarthritis in goats and sheep.
• periosteal proliferative p. — occurs in young, adult male cats as an acute, febrile illness accompanied by severe joint pain and stiffness, followed by generalized stiffness, swollen joints and akylosis. The disease is believed to be immune-mediated and associated with infection by feline leukemia virus and feline syncytium-forming virus. In a variant form, the onset is insidious and the joint changes are erosive and deforming. Called also Reiter's disease.
• p.-polymyositis — an immune-mediated, nonerosive polyarthritis seen in spaniels. There is a chronic myositis with muscle atrophy.

Polyarthritis
Classification and external resources
ICD-10	M13.0
ICD-9	711-716
MeSH	[1]

Polyarthritis is any type of arthritis which involves five or more joints — an inflammation of two, three or four joints is an oligoarthritis.

Polyarthritis may be experienced at any age and is not gender specific.

Contents 1 Causes 2 Treatment 3 Associated conditions 4 See also

Causes

Polyarthritis is most often caused by an auto-immune disorder such as Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, and Lupus erythematosus but can also be caused by infection with an alphavirus such as Chikungunya Virus and Ross River Virus. This condition is termed Alphavirus Polyarthritis Syndrome. Sindbis Virus, which is endemic in Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia, is the most widely distributed of the alphaviruses causing polyarthritis, though infection is usually mild or asymptomatic.

Treatment

It is recommended that individuals with this affliction sleep on a firm mattress and a flat pillow.

Associated conditions

It may associate with bilateral oedema in lower limbs, pain and joint swelling some time there is previous history of this inflammatory joint problems and edema of bilateral edema of lower limbs.

Alphavirus Polyarthritis Syndrome has an incubation period of 3-21 days, depending on the specific virus, with etiher a gradual or sudden onset of fever, arthralgias, headache, and lymphadenitis and conjunctivitis in some forms. A maculopapular rash may present 4-8 days post symptom onset and may be accompanied by an increase in fever. Joint pains associated with this condition may reoccur for many months after initial illness for up to a year.

See also

• Polyarteritis nodosa

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