rheumatologic disorders in the elderly

Etiology

Connective tissue disorder

• polymyalgia rheumatica
• rheumatoid arthritis
• lupus erythematosus
• Sjogren's syndrome

Vasculitis

• temporal arteritis
• Wegener's granulomatosis
• systemic necrotizing vasculitis
• isolated angiitis of the CNS
• small vessel vasculitis

Arthritis

• crystalline arthritis
  • pseudogout
  • gout
  • hydroxyapatite deposition disease
    • Milwaukee shoulder syndrome
• spondyloarthropathy (HLA B27-associated arthritis)
  • ankylosing spondylitis
  • Reiter's syndrome
  • reactive arthritis
  • psoriatic arthritis & spondylitis
  • enteropathic arthritis & spondylitis (inflammatory bowel disease)
• infectious arthritis
  • Lyme disease
• osteoarthritis
• osteitis condensans ilii

Myalgia/myositis

• fibromyalgia
• inclusion body myositis
• dermatomyositis
• polymyositis
• hypothyroidism
• muscle cramps

Bone/cartilage

• chondrocalcinosis
• avascular osteonecrosis
• Paget's disease of bone

Other

• regional sympathetic dystrophy
• paraneoplastic syndrome

More general terms

• rheumatologic disease
• geriatric disorder; disease of old age; geriatric syndrome

More specific terms

• fibromyalgia in the elderly
• granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's granulomatosis) in the elderly
• infectious arthritis in the elderly
• rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly
• Sjogren's syndrome in the elderly
• systemic lupus erythematosus in the elderly

Additional terms

• autoimmune disease