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SMQ Arthritis intended to identify potential cases of arthritis and worsened arthritis that may be drug related. Arthritis is inflammation of one or more joints, resulting in: redness, warmth, pain, swelling, stiffness, limited movement. Numerous types of arthritis exist, including: osteoarthritis, infective arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, related autoimmune diseases. Pain caused by intra-articular disorders may be secondary to: inflammatory arthritis (e.g., infection, RA, crystal deposition); or noninflammatory process (e.g., osteoarthritis). Inflammatory arthritis may involve: peripheral joints only (e.g., hands, knees, feet); or both peripheral and axial joints (e.g., sacroiliac, apophyseal, discovertebral, costovertebral). Peripheral oligoarticular and polyarticular arthritis have specific likely causes such as: juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Lyme disease arthritis. Acute polyarticular arthritis: most often due to infection (usually viral), or flare of a rheumatic disease. Chronic polyarticular arthritis in adults: most often due to rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory), or osteoarthritis (noninflammatory). Chronic polyarticular arthritis in children: most often due to juvenile idiopathic arthritis. In many patients, arthritis is often transient, resolving without diagnosis, or may not fulfill criteria for a defined rheumatic disease
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