polyarthritis
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Polyarthritis is any type of arthritis that involves five or more joints simultaneously. It can be associated with autoimmune conditions; it may be experienced at any age and is not sex specific.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Polyarthritis
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- Medical condition (new).caption
- Osteoarthritis (OA) location on the skeleton anterior
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- Rheumatology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- arthropathy
- Subclass of
- arthritis
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- health specialty
- rheumatology
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- infliximab
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C26996
- topic's main category
- Category:Inflammatory polyarthropathies
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Causes
- Viral polyarthritis
- Bacterial polyarthritis
- See also
- References
Polyarthritis is any type of arthritis that involves five or more joints simultaneously. It can be associated with autoimmune conditions; it may be experienced at any age and is not sex specific.
==Causes== Polyarthritis may be caused by an auto-immune disorder such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and lupus erythematosus, or other inflammatory rheumatic diseases, like crystal arthropathies. It can also be caused by cancer or various medications.
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