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Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder
Is an umbrella term for conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints and/or connective tissue.
Symptoms:
- Fatigue
- Joint pain
- Joint tenderness
- Joint swelling
- Joint redness
- Joint warmth
- Joint stiffness
- Loss of joint range of motion
- Many joints affected (polyarthritis)
- Limping
- Joint deformity
- Both sides of the body affected (symmetric)
- Loss of joint function
- Anemia
- Fever
Preliminary plan:
- Traumatologist appointment
- General practitioner appointment
- Cardiologist appointment
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Urinalysis
- Stool analys - Protozoans and Helminths (microscopy)
- Blood test:
- Urea (BUN)
- Creatinine
- Uric acid
- Rheumatoid factor
- Antistreptolisin O (ASL-O)
- Calcium
- Phosphorus
- Glucose
- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP)
- Alaninaminotrasferaza (ALT)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
- Bilirubin total and direct
- Cholesterol
- HDL Cholesterol
- LDL Cholesterol
- Triglycerides
- Potassium Sodium Chlorine (K, Na, Cl) (blood)
- CK-creatine kinase
- Joint X-ray
- Joint ultrasound
- Diagnostic joint puncture
Doctors
Pediatrician
Cardiologist
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