PsA

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  • Created by: OJSleek
  • Created on: 22-05-22 17:53
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  • psoriatic arthritis
    • def
      • sero-negative spondyloarthropathy
    • Manifestations
      • asymmetric or oligo monoarticular arthritis
      • dipj, pipj, mcpj
      • arthritis mutilans
      • symmetric polyathritis
    • Epidemiology
      • affects around 25% of patients with psorisis
      • equally affects men and women
      • genetics- HLAB27 found in 50% of pts
    • S+S
      • arthritic symptoms on hands
      • dactylitis in hands
        • sausage digits
      • onychodystrophy
        • nail pitting
        • onycholysis
      • arthritis mutillans
      • opera glass hands
        • excess skin from shortening of phalanx bones which become folded transversly if resorb into one another
    • clinical examination
      • look
        • rashes with silvery plaques
          • over extensor surfaces
            • elbows
            • knees
            • typically precedes joint involvement
    • other tests
      • imaging
        • radiograph of hands
          • distal phalanx acrolysis
          • dipj pencil and cup deformity
            • simultaneousdestruction of middle phalanx and expansion of bases of distal phalanx
          • small joint erosions
            • pipj, mcp, wrist
          • fluffy periostitis which is caused by perioseo ossification, acro-osteolysis
            • flail digits
          • spine and axial disease
            • sacral-iliitis
            • syndesmophytes
            • paraobtebral ossification
            • destruction distal tebral
    • T/T
      • non-operative is similar to RA
        • NSAIDs
        • methotrexate
        • sulfosalizine
        • ciclosporin
        • TNF-alpha inhibitors
      • operative t/t
        • when DMARDS t/t exhausted
          • digital fusion vs  resection arthroplasty
            • indicated for advanced joint disease for psa
          • osteotomy

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