cme for family medicine specialists
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CME for Family Medicine Specialists
Evelyn Sutton, MD, FRCPC, FACP
November 17, 2018
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Disclosures
Received $ from
• Advisory Board Consultant:
Amgen, Abvie, Pfizer, Actelion, Lilly,
• Grants:
Arthritis Society, CIHR
Stipend from Canadian Rheumatology Association for VP role (2018)
• Chair of Medical Advisory Committee Arthritis Society (Volunteer-unpaid)
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Clinical Pearls
• Objectives:
• Share some practical observations/insights
• History
• Physical Examination
• Labs
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HEADACHE
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• 80 yo woman with known RA
• Develops unilateral ear ache
• Wakes her at night
• Exam-normal Tympanic Membrane
• RA well controlled-damaged joints but none swollen
• ESR 20 mm/hr
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Key Questions in the History
• Scalp Tender? Hurt to comb her hair or touch scalp
• Jaw ache with chewing?
• Visual disturbance?
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If YES
• To any one of the preceding questions…
• Think Temporal arteritis
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BUT ESR is only 20 mm/hr!
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Simple rule for normal ESR
Men: age ÷2 = normal ESR
Women: (age+10) ÷ 2 = normal ESR
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1983 January 22; 286(6361): 266
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This Patient
• 80 yrs old so normal ESR is any value < or = 45
Her value is 20 mm/hr
She is sent to her dentist who recommends bite plate
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A few weeks later she loses sight in eye same side as ear
Dx: GCA/Temporal Arteritis
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Re Patients with Temporal Arteritis, which statements are true?
a) Risk blindness even after steroids are started
b) If blindness has already occurred bilaterally, there is no need for steroids
c) Are at increased risk for dissecting thoracic aneurysm
d) All of the above
e) a + c
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Timing of Biopsy
• Retrospective1 and Prospective2,3 trials:
• Timing of biopsy relative to steroid initiation does not affect biopsy results
1) Narvaez,J et al. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2007 Aug;37(1):13-9 2)Ray-Chaudhuri, N et al. Br. J Ophthalmol, 2002 May;86 (5): 530-23)Achkar, AA et al. Ann Intern Med, 1994 Jun15;(12):987-92
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Quick facts
• Risk of blindness highest in first 6 weeks of symptom onset, even with Rx
• Systemic disease-needs treatment even if blindness has occurred
• Risk of thoracic aneurysms increases with time (Arthritis Rheum. 2003 Dec;48(12):3522-31
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Labs that can fool you
ESR
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ESR
• The rate at which erythrocytes fall through a column of plasma
• Indirect measurement of plasma acute phase protein concentrations-Fibrinogen
• Advantage: familiar, simple, abundant literature, inexpensive
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Factors that Influence ESR
Increase Decrease
Anemia
Hypercholesterolemia
Pregnancy
Inflammatory diseases
Increase Igs
Increase fibrinogen
CRF
Heparin
Tissue damage (MI, stroke)
High room temp.
Sickle cell anemia
Microcytosis
Polycythemia
Hypofibrinogenemia
CHF
Cachexia
Low room temp.
Clotting of the blood
samples
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ESR DISADVANTAGES
• increases with age
• changes relatively slowly
• influenced by RBC characteristics & immunnoglobulins
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Summary
• Be suspicious of temporal arteritis in elderly population with new symptoms in head and neck region
• ESR may be normal in up to 10% patients with GCA (and is affected by many things)
• Biopsy is valuable even weeks after steroids initiated
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Gout
Elderly women and young men
Different joint distribution
Different cause
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Gout
Gout is rare in men < 35 yrs
If present, think genetic deficiency (family members will nearly always history of gout at young age)
Due to excess production of uric acid
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Gout in Elderly Women
• Sudden onset
• Usually DIP joints of Hands!
• Can mimic septic arthritis
• Are nearly always on thiazide diuretic
• Due to decreased excretion of uric acid
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History
“Everything is getting harder to do”
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Difficulties
• Climbing stairs
• Getting up from chairs, toilet seat
• Limbs feel “heavy”
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She does not complain
Of Weakness
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My observation
• The patient who complains of weakness is usually not weak, but is expressing symptoms of fatigue, low blood pressure, malaise due to a multitude of causes
• The patient who complains of what difficulties DOING, is much more likely to have a muscular or neuromuscular cause for their symptoms
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• Test her strength-proximal and distal
• Check reflexes
• Check ALT and CK
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Pregnant woman
• Previously well
• Complaints of any symptom that could be due to an “itis”-e.g.
Joint pain arthritis
Chest pain pleuritis
pericarditis
Swollen feet nephritis
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Think SLE
• 30% of all lupus patients have their first symptoms in pregnancy
• Initial symptoms can be mild to life threatening
• 25% pregnant lupus pts have thrombocytopenia
Clin Rheumatol. 2013 Jun;32(6):815-22. doi: 10.1007/s10067-013-2180-z. Epub 2013 Jan 29
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Labs that can fool you• Rheumatoid Factor
• Titer > 1000?
• Almost assuredly NOT from RA
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Rheumatoid factor in rheumatic disease
• Rheumatoid arthritis – 60-70%
• Sjogren’s syndrome – 75-95%
• Mixed connective tissue disease – 50-60%
• Mixed cryoglobulinemia – 40-100%
• SLE – 15-35%
• Polymyositis/dermatomyositis – 5-10%
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Rheumatoid Factor in non rheumatic diseases
Aging( >age 60)
Infection• Bacterial endocarditis
• HBV or HCV
• Viral infection
• TB
• Syphilis
• Parasitic disease
Pulmonary diseases• Sarcoidosis
• Asbestosis
• Interstitial pulmonary fibrosis
• Silicosis
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Malignancy
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Bedside Exam Pearl
• Straight Leg Raise
• Radicular pain made worse with SLR
• If NOT relieved by knee flexion
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• Look for cause of pain in the buttock
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+ve SIGN OF THE BUTTOCK
Could be due to:
Bursitis
Tumor
Abscess
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Sign of the Buttock
• Kesson M, Atkins E, Orthopedic Medicine, A Practical Approach. 2nd edition. Elsevier: 2005
• http://www.cyriax.eu/content/sign-buttock
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Clinical Pearl
• New ache or pain in head or neck in elderly patient should prompt you to think about GCA
• Do not let normal ESR fool you
• Up to 10% patients may have normal ESR
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• Complaint of Weakness is usually not because of muscular weakness
• Complaints of what patients cannot do, often due to true weakness
• Gout in elderly women is not like gout in men
• “itis” in pregnancy-think lupus
• Sign of the Buttock-red flag