Knee Arthritis Without Other Joint Symptoms in the Elderly With Seronegative Elderly Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis
Takatomo Mine*, Koichiro Ihara, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Ryutaro Kuriyama, Ryo DateDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kanmon Medical Center, Simonoseki, Japan
Abstract
Elderly onset Rheumatoid arthritis (EORA) has important clinical distinctions when compared with younger onset RA (YORA). In knee arthritis of elderly patients, infection, crystal-induced arthritis or EORA should be suspected if elevation of CRP in the preoperative examination and turbid joint effusion in their knee joint are found. Furthermore, if joint swelling and effusion remain after performing total knee arthroplasty (TKA), the infection after TKA, implant debris-related arthritis and EORA should be considered. However, it is difficult to diagnose patients as EORA if Rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (ACPA) are negative. The differential diagnosis is very important.
Keywords: Arthroscopy, Synovitis, Knee arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Elderly person, Seronegative RA.
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Article History:
Received Date: 20/10/2016
Revision Received Date: 21/11/2016
Acceptance Date: 23/11/2016
Electronic publication date: 30/12/2016
Collection year: 2016
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