arthritis with fever
Last reviewed 01/2018
The differential diagnosis of arthritis with fever includes:
- arthritis caused by infectious agents:
- direct infection of joints
- indirect arthritis:
- acute rheumatic fever
- reactive arthritis
- hepatitis B
- crystal arthritides:
- gout
- pseudogout
- connective tissue disease:
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- mixed connective tissue disease
- vasculitides
- adult onset Still's disease
- rheumatoid arthritis
- polymyalgia rheumatica
- sarcoidosis
- arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease
- haematological malignancy
- Whipple's disease
- familial Mediterranean fever
Reference:
- Evans, RH et al. (1997). Pyrexia of unknown origin. (Grand Round). BMJ. 314, 583-6.
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)