In addition to causing arthritis by means of direct microbial infection (i.e., septic arthritis; see Chapter 705 ), microbes activate innate and adaptive immune responses, which can lead to the generation and deposition of immune complexes as well as antibody…
The diseases collectively referred to as spondyloarthritides include ankylosing spondylitis (AS) , arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or psoriasis, and reactive arthritis following gastrointestinal (GI) or genitourinary (GU) infections ( Table 181.1 and Table 181.2 ). Spondyloarthritis is…
Definition and Classification Under the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) classification of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), , enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA) is defined according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria shown in Table 20.1 . Children with ERA have…