Reactive arthritis is regarded to be a systemic chronic disease. This chronic form carries symptoms of inflammation and pain to joint and non-joint regions. This implies it could involve other organs besides the articulations. It as well shares a number of characteristics with many other arthritic conditions. Reactive arthritis is most often encountered in patients [...]
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Post Traumatic Arthritis is a severe accidental injury to a joint’s surface that could damage the articular cartilage, supporting muscular tissue and ligaments and contribute to poor joint stability and early wear and tear. Degenerative changes of the surface area of a joint due to trauma in turn could lead in post-traumatic arthritis a condition [...]
Acute infectious arthritis is commonly a bacterial infection, caused by viruses or fungi, of the synovial or periarticular tissues. The condition most typically involves young adults and children. In young adults the bacterium most commonly responsible is gonococcal bacteria-neisseria gonorrhoeae but infections could happen from nongonococcal bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Staphylococcus [...]






