Degenerative joint disease
Causes
- Metabolic joint disease
- Abnormal lipid handling
- Inherited hypercholesterolaemia and related disroders
- Gout
- Pyrophosphate arthropathies
- Diabetes mellitus
- Inflammatory joint disease
- Infective arthritis - gonococcus, salmonella
- Non-infective: RA, ank spond, psoriatic
- Trauma
- Joint trauma
- Repetitive strain
- Congenital
- Achondroplasia
Joints affected
- Hip
- Knee
- Shoulder
- Elbow
- TMJ