• Acute infectious (septic) arthritis is a joint infection that evolves over hours or days. (msdmanuals.com)
  • is decreasing the incidence of joint infection in this age group. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Prosthetic Joint Infectious Arthritis Prosthetic joints are at risk of acute and chronic infection, which can cause sepsis, morbidity, or mortality. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Patients at risk for pseudomonal bone and joint infections include those with puncture wounds to the foot, peripheral vascular disease, intravenous drug abuse, or diabetes mellitus. (medscape.com)
  • However, nongonococcal bacterial infections can also occur and can rapidly destroy joint structures. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In adults, most acute joint infections result from bacteria and are classified as gonococcal or nongonococcal. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This distinction is important because gonococcal infections are far less destructive to the joint. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Other lesions in the spine include diffuse osteoporosis (loss of trabecular bone despite accretion of periosteal bone), erosion of vertebral bodies at the disk margin, "squaring" or "barreling" of vertebrae, and inflammation and destruction of the disk-bone border. (clinicalgate.com)
  • Inflammatory arthritis of the apophyseal (facet) joints is common, with synovitis, inflammation at the bony attachment of the joint capsule, and subchondral bone marrow granulation tissue. (clinicalgate.com)
  • Inflammation in the fibrocartilaginous enthesis, the region where a tendon, ligament, or joint capsule attaches to bone, is a characteristic lesion in AS and other SpAs, both at axial and peripheral sites. (clinicalgate.com)
  • Inflammation of the sacroiliac joint, marked by lower back pain, fever, uveitis, psoriasis and decreased range of motion. (practicalclinicalskills.com)
  • peripheral joints and extraarticular structures are also frequently involved. (clinicalgate.com)
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that primarily involves the joints. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Symptoms include rapid onset of pain, effusion, and restriction of both active and passive range of motion, usually within a single joint. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Symptoms include joint pain, swelling. (msdmanuals.com)