Arthritis is broad and often includes infectious and non-infectious arthritis, with non-infectious arthritis including osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is clinically called rheumatoid arthritis. The two are mainly differentiated from the causes, symptoms and examinations.
1. Etiology: arthritis is an inflammatory lesion of the joint cavity and its components caused by inflammation, infection, trauma or other factors; while rheumatoid arthritis is mainly caused by a combination of hereditary, infectious, environmental and other factors.
2. Symptoms: The main clinical symptoms of arthritis include redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction of the joints; while rheumatoid arthritis has morning stiffness, tenderness, swelling, deformity and dysfunction of the joints, as well as pulmonary manifestations, such as shortness of breath after activity and pleural effusion.
3. Examination: the main examination of arthritis includes joint imaging, such as X-ray, joint MRI, joint ultrasound, etc., while rheumatoid arthritis includes joint imaging, inflammatory markers, autoantibody examination, such as blood sedimentation, C-reactive protein, rheumatoid factor, and anti-citrullinated protein antibody.
Arthritis is a collective term for all the factors that lead to inflammatory lesions in the joints, of which rheumatoid arthritis is only a small branch. If you have symptoms related to joints, it is recommended that you should go to the hospital in a timely manner, and under the guidance of the doctor to improve the relevant examinations to clarify the cause of the disease and then actively treat it.
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