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Home › Health › Ailments › Arthritis › Classification of Arthritis and Rheumatism

Classification of Arthritis and Rheumatism





I – Polyarthritis of unknown etiology

  • Rheumatic arthritis
  • Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (Still’s disease)
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • Reiter’s syndrome
  • Others

II – Connective tissue disorders

  • Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Scleroderma (progressive systemic sclerosis)
  • Polymyositis and dermatomyositis
  • Others

III – Rheumatic fever

IV – Degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis, osteoarthrosis)

  • Primary
  • Secondary

V – Nonarticular rheumatism

  • Fibrositis
  • Intervertebral disk and low back syndromes
  • Myositis and myalgia
  • Tendinitis and peritendinitis (bursitis)
  • Tenosynovitis
  • Fasciitis
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Others (including VIII – shoulder/hand syndrome)

VI – Diseases frequently associated with arthritis

  • Sarcoidosis
  • Relapsing polychondritis
  • Henoch-Schönlein syndrome
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Regional ileitis
  • Whipple’s disease
  • Sjögren’s syndrome
  • Familial Mediterranean fever
  • Others (including I – psoriatic arthritis)

VII – Associated with known infectious agents

  • Bacterial
    • Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease)
    • Brucella
    • Gonococcus
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    • Pneumococcus
    • Salmonella
    • Staphylococcus
    • Streptobacillus moniliformis (Haverhill fever)
    • Treponema pallidum (syphilis)
    • Treponema pertenue (yaws)
    • Others
  • Rickettsial
  • Viral
  • Fungal
  • Parasitic (including III – rheumatic fever)

VIII – Traumatic and/or neurogenic disorders

  • Traumatic arthritis (the result of direct trauma)
  • Lues (tertiary syphilis)
  • Diabetes
  • Syringomyelia
  • Shoulder-hand syndrome
  • Mechanical derangement of joints
  • Others (including IV – degenerative joint disease and V – carpal tunnel syndrome)

IX – Associated with biochemical or endocrine abnormalities

  • Gout
  • Ochronosis
  • Hemophilia
  • Hemoglobinopathies (e.g,. sickle cell disease)
  • Agammaglobulinemia
  • Gaucher’s disease
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Acromegaly
  • Hypothryroidism
  • Scurvy
  • Xanthoma tuberosum
  • Others (including X – multiple myeloma and Xii – Hurler’s syndrome)

X – Tumor and tumor-like conditions

  • Synovioma
  • Pigmented villonodular synovitis
  • Giant cell tumor of tendon sheath
  • Primary juxta-articular bone tumors
  • Metastatic
  • Leukemia
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Benign tumors of articular tissue
  • Others (including XIII – hypertrophic osteoarthropathy)

XI – Allergy and drug reactions

  • Arthritis due to specific allergens (e.g., serum sickness, nightshade vegetables, other foods)
  • Arthritis due to drugs (eg. Hydralazine syndrome)
  • Others

XII – Inherited and congenital disorders

  • Marfan’s syndrome
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
  • Hurler’s syndrome
  • Congenital hip dysplasia
  • Morquio’s disease
  • Others

XIII – Miscellaneous disorders

  • Amyloidosis
  • Aseptic necrosis of bone
  • Behçet’s syndrome
  • Chondrocalcinosis (pseudogout)
  • Erythema multiforme (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
  • Erythema nodosum
  • Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
  • Juvenile osteochondritis
  • Osteochondritis dissecans
  • Reticulohistiocytosis of joints (lipoid dermato-arthritis)
  • Tietze’s disease
  • Others




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