Современная ревматология (Jun 2010)

PYROPHOSPHATE ARTHROPATHY IS A RHEUMATOLOGICAL ICEBERG SYNDROME: TIME TO REASSESS ITS IMPORTANCE IN JOINT DISEASES

  • Viktoria Georgiyevna Barskova,
  • A E Ilyina,
  • L A Semenova,
  • S G Radenska-Lopovok,
  • M A Osipyants,
  • A V Smirnov,
  • M A Makarov

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 5 – 11

Abstract

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The paper provides the present views of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and classification of pyrophosphate arthropathy (PPA). It describes a morphological study of the structure of the knee joint after total prosthetics in a patient diagnosed as having osteoarthrosis. Reasons for low detection rates of the disease are considered. Difficulties in the laboratory and instrumental diagnosis of PPA are analyzed in detail.

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