RT Book, Section A1 Johnson, Bruce E. A2 South-Paul, Jeannette E. A2 Matheny, Samuel C. A2 Lewis, Evelyn L. SR Print(0) ID 1106848754 T1 Arthritis: Osteoarthritis, Gout, & Rheumatoid Arthritis T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Family Medicine, 4e YR 2015 FD 2015 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071827454 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1106848754 RD 2024/03/28 AB Arthritis is a complaint and a disease afflicting many patients and accounting for >10% of appointments to a generalist practice. Arthritis is multifaceted and can be categorized in several different fashions. For simplicity, this chapter focuses on conditions affecting the anatomic joint composed of cartilage, synovium, and bone. Other discussions would include localized disorders of the periarticular region (eg, tendonitis and bursitis) and systemic disorders that have arthritic manifestations (eg, vasculitides, polymyalgia rheumatica, and fibromyalgia). The chapter discusses three prototypical types of arthritis: osteoarthritis, as an example of a cartilage disorder; gout, as an example of both a crystal-induced arthritis and an acute arthritis; and rheumatoid arthritis, as an example of an immune-mediated, systemic disease and a chronic deforming arthritis.