Degenerative Joint Disease
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Patellar Luxation
Atlantoaxial Luxation
Temporomandibular Luxation
Calve Legg-Perthe's Disease
Degenerative Arthropathy
Joint Trauma
Nutritional diseases
Hypervitaminosis A
Disc Protrusion
Cervical Spinal Stenosis
Cervicospinal Arthropathy
Spondylosis
Cranial cruciate ligament rupture
- Autoantibodies against collagens seen in the joint fluid – no relationship to the disease (ie: not an autoimmune disease) – can be seen in any joint disease
Steroid arthropathy
- From glucocorticoids injected into joint as antiinflammatories
- Injection sometimes causes rapid progression of degeneration
- Glucocortyicois suppress anabolic effect of chondrocytes -> reduction of cartilage matrix syhthesis -> proteoglycan depletion -> slower repair