Arthritis, does not always go by age when selecting its sufferers. Arthritis does not only attack the joints, cartilage, or the tissue areas or lining in between the joints. There are many different forms of arthritis, and each type deals with certain organs and parts of the body, resulting in completely different symptoms and thus arthritis treatment. Although people are familiar with common Arthritis - Secondary To Other Diseases, it is important that they must also be aware of the secondary types of arthritis that are relevant to arthritis, because even if these diseases don't actually attack the joints, they can still start such an attack.
These secondary types of arthritis are usually caused by other diseases, infections or illnesses. Each has its own causes, indication, symptoms, prognosis, signs, treatments, therapy, etc., but they ultimately trigger arthritis attacks or certain joint disorders. The Arthritis - Secondary To Other Diseases actually are reactions of certain diseases that a person has. Some specific examples would be: Psoriatic Arthritis which affects people with Psoriasis, Hemochromatosis which affects the body when dietary iron accumulates and deposits in the body tissues, reactive arthritis which affects a person with genital infection or a bacteria-causing disease, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus which affects a person with inflammation of tissues or cells.
The Arthritis – secondary to other diseases are resulting conditions of some other diseases. As a reason, it is often difficult to diagnose these secondary types of arthritis, because somehow the symptoms they have mimic other illnesses. It is only when a person consults a physician, submits himself to a battery of laboratory exams and medical tests, eliminates the other diseases similar to it, can he then be diagnosed with such secondary disease. If arthritis is diagnosed earlier, a more effective arthritis treatment can be taken.
Arthritis – secondary to other diseases are of some 100 types of arthritis, rheumatic diseases and related conditions. Most of these are listed here:
Lupus, Lyme Disease, Adult Onset Still's Disease, Marfan Syndrome, Ankylosing Spondylitis Mycotic Arthritis, Osgood-Schlatter Disease, Osteitis Deformans, Asseptic Necrosis, Osteoarthritis, Avascular Necrosis, Osteonecrosis, Basal Joint Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Behcet's Disease, Bursitis, Paget's Disease of Bone, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Palindromic Rheumatism, Celiac Disease, Polyarteritis Nodosa, CMC Arthritis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Polymyositis, Costochondritis, Pseudogout, Crohn's Disease and Dermatomyositis.
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More examples of Arthritis – secondary to other diseases are Reiter's Syndrome, Discoid Lupus Erythematosus, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Rheumatic Fever, Eosinophilic Fasciitis, Felty Syndrome, Scleroderma, Septic Arthritis, Sjogren's Syndrome, Forestier Disease, Somatotroph Adenoma, Fungal Arthritis, Spinal Stenosis, Gaucher Disease, Takayasu Arteritis, Giant Cell Arteritis, Temporal Arteritis, Gonococcal Arthritis, Tendinitis / Tendonitis, Tietze's Syndrome, Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, Infectious Arthritis, Tuberculous Arthritis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Joint Hypermobility, Vasculitis, Kawasaki Disease, Wegener's Granulomatosis and Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease.
More information on the more prevalent forms of secondary arthritis is at Lupus erythematosus, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, Psoriatic arthritis, Reactive arthritis
Haemochromatosis, Hepatitis, Wegener's granulomatosis, Lyme disease, Familial Mediterranean fever, Hyperimmunoglobulinemia D with recurrent fever, TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome and Inflammatory bowel disease.
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