How is psoriatic arthritis diagnosed?

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Psoriatic arthritis in the onset of various symptoms, patients are required to maintain sufficient attention to accept the treatment of this disease, the most serious is joint deformity, necrosis, to the normal life of patients with a very serious impact, and even eventually threaten life, so we found that the disease should be treated in time. Now let's talk about how to diagnose psoriatic arthritis?.

How is psoriatic arthritis diagnosed?

First: X-ray plain film: commonly used in the normal, lateral, large and small joints can be, limbs, shoulder, spine, sacroiliac joints; According to different diseases and parts, there are different requirements. Generally, bone damage or hyperplasia lesions are clearly displayed, but because of image overlap, early small lesions are not easy to see; Synovium, articular capsule, cartilage, meniscus and ligament were not shown.

Second: CT: it can accurately show the tiny difference of different tissue density in a cross section, which is an ideal method to observe the small lesions of bone, joint and soft tissue. Most of them are used in sacroiliac joint and spine of as; The pathological changes of cartilage and meniscus of knee joint, the brain changes of SLE; Early lung interstitial changes.

Third: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): for bone, joint and soft tissue lesions, it has higher resolution than X-ray and CT, and is superior to CT in soft tissue imaging. It is mainly used for the diagnosis of bone, cartilage, meniscus and fascia; It's also very helpful for brain tissue, myelopathy. This is the key to the examination of rheumatism.

matters needing attention

How to diagnose psoriatic arthritis through the above article? In addition, the house should be ventilated and sunny. Do not sleep on the cement floor or air outlet. In addition, rheumatoid arthritis patients should pay attention to moderate work and rest in daily life, overcome depression, and keep optimistic and positive mood to treat disease and life. Often stay up late is easy to suffer from liver and kidney yin deficiency arthritis, stay up late will also make rheumatoid arthritis patients worse, therefore, to maintain 7 ~ 8 hours of sleep every day, around 11 o'clock at night should go to bed.