Rheumatoid Arthritis Differential Diagnosis

Differential Diagnosis

There are other conditions that may present similarly with rheumatoid arthritis including other systemic diseases and connective tissue syndromes which include:

• Systemic diseases
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Infective endocarditis
  • Still’s disease
  • Sarcoidosis
• Connective tissue disorders
  • Scleroderma
  • Sjogren’s syndrome
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Systemic vasculitides
  • Mixed connective tissue disease
• Other conditions
  • Seronegative spondyloarthropathies
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • Reactive arthritis
  • Infectious arthritis
  • Crystal-induced arthritis
  • Endocrinopathies (eg thyroid disease)
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Paraneoplastic syndromes