2023-05-01 09:57:27
Psoriatic arthritis is one of the diseases that most affect people with psoriasis, and although this disease affects the skin and joints, in advanced stages it can cause pain and disability.
What is the cause of psoriasis?
- Psoriasis affects regarding 3 percent of the world’s population, and it appears in various forms that affect either joints, skin, hair or nails.
- The cause of psoriasis or psoriasis is not fully known, but it is a non-infectious skin disease that goes through different stages that get worse, and may fade in some periods..
- This disease, which doctors say is an autoimmune disease, can attack the body’s immune cells, and also cause various inflammations in the joints.
- These infections appear as redness, swelling, and pain.
When is the diagnosis made?
- The disease, which affects a large percentage of adults, can be diagnosed in childhood as a skin disease, before it worsens and affects the joints later..
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What is the treatment?
- Many medications have been developed to treat advanced cases of rheumatoid arthritis.
- A previous American study by the University of Washington, whose results were presented at the annual European Congress of Rheumatology, found that the drug “Tildrakizumab”, which is usually prescribed for the treatment of psoriasis, can contribute to improving the symptoms of arthritis by regarding 80 percent.
- This percentage is affected by the patient’s condition, age and stage of the disease.
Doctor answers questions
For more information related to the disease, a rheumatology consultant, Ahmed Abu Jamal, spoke to “Sky News Arabia”, saying:
- Psoriasis is well known as a skin disease, but it is an autoimmune disease, meaning that the immune system, due to an unknown defect, recognizes some body tissues as foreign and not belonging to the body.
- In the case of psoriasis, the immune system recognizes the skin as foreign, but with scientific development and the discovery of the way the immune system works in a large way, we knew that the skin is only part of the disease.
- There are other parts of the body that can be attacked by the immune system, the most famous of which is the joints, so a large part of rheumatic infections called psoriatic rheumatism is inflammation of the musculoskeletal system, which is accompanied by psoriasis of the skin.
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How do the symptoms begin?
Abu Jamal continued his speech, and said:
- The exposure rate of people with psoriasis of the skin to psoriasis of the joints ranges from 25 to 30 percent.
- Most patients have a childhood rash.
- From the age of 8 to 10 years, the effect appears on joints, such as peripheral joints such as the hands, or lower extremity joints such as the knee and ankle, or injury to the tendons, such as heel pain.
- Psoriasis of the joints appears with a slow development, so it is necessary when there is any pain in the joints in people with psoriasis of the skin, that they review the specialist doctor quickly, because many sufferers suffer from psoriasis of the joints for years without realizing it.
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