Clinical presentation of Charcot joints vary widely depending onthe stage of disease, as symptoms vary from moderate to slight edema and swelling up to severe deformation. Acute Charcotarthropathy presents with signs of inflammation: increasedtemperature place, unilateral edema, erythema, joint effusion andbone resorption. These characteristics in the presence of an intactskin and loss of protective sensation are pathognomonic for acuteCharcot arthropathy.
Pain occurs in more than 75% of patients, severity of pain is stillsignificantly lower than expectations. Instability and loss of jointfunction are also present. Passive joint movement can give the feeling of "bag with bones. " Approximately 40% of patients withacute Charcot arthropathy complicating diagnosis have concurrentulcers and raises the suspicion of osteomyelitis.
Calsificarea Charcot arthropathy include:
plant-model implies a prior-phalangeal joints, phalanges and jointmetatarsofalangeana
involves joint-model 2-tarsometatarsiana
involves the 3-articulations cuneonaviculare, and calcaneocuboidetalonaviculare
4-model involves talocrurala or ankle joint
Model 5-implies calcanelor back.
Disease progression:
Complications include structures ligament ossification, the formation of intra and extra-articular exostoze, arch collapse anddevelopment of osteomyelitis. The condition is aggravated byconstant pain and loss that deprives the affected limb jointhipermobilitatea of natural protection against injuries. In the initial stages of the disease is deformed foot, as it develops showsswelling and changes in coloration. Finally can not sustain theplantar arch and foot colabeaza being destroyed. The foot is warm,edema and painless.
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