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🌱 來自: bacterial arthritis

Clinical manifestations of bacterial arthritis

• Acute onset monoarticular arthritis (>80%) w/ pain (Se 85%), swelling (Se 78%), warmth
• Location:
  • knee (most common), hip, wrist, shoulder, ankle.
  • In IVDU, tends to involve other areas including axial joints (eg, SI, symphysis pubis, sternoclavicular, manubrial joints).
• Constit. sx:
  • fevers (Se 57%),
  • rigors (Se 19%),
  • sweats (Se 27%),
  • malaise,
  • myalgias
• Infection can track from initial site to form
  • fistulae,
  • abscesses,
  • or osteomyelitis
• Septic bursitis must be differentiated from septic arthritis (intra-articular infection)