Canine immune-mediated polyarthritis: part 2: diagnosis and treatment.
皮肤病科
免疫系统
类风湿性关节炎
作者
Kirstin C. Johnson,Andrew J. Mackin
出处
期刊:Journal of The American Animal Hospital Association [American Animal Hospital Association] 日期:2012-03-01卷期号:48 (2): 71-82被引量:24
标识
DOI:10.5326/jaaha-ms-5756
摘要
Canine immune-mediated polyarthritis (IMPA) is a diagnosis of exclusion based predominantly on clinical signs, characteristic joint fluid analysis, and elimination of potential joint infection. Ultimately, an appropriate and sustained response to immunosuppressive therapy may become the final diagnostic criterion used. Identifying associated disease processes, including breed-specific syndromes, remote infection, inflammation, drug exposure, vaccine exposure, or neoplasia, as well as initial response to therapy, is often an important contributor to prognosis. This review article is the second of a two part series and focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of immune-mediated polyarthritis. The first article in this series, published in the January/February 2012 issue, concentrated on the pathophysiology of IMPA.