Polyarthritis

Arthritis refers to inflammation of five or more joints.

Causes

Most common cause of an inflammatory disease of the joints is an autoimmune disease, which is referred to as rheumatoid arthritis.

Some infectious diseases, such as the Ross River fever, also are associated with polyarthritis.

The Multicenter reticulohistiocytosis goes next nodules in the skin and mucous membranes, with a destructive polyarthritis associated - mutilating.

Patients with antibody deficiency syndrome can develop a non-erosive poly or oligoarthritis.