TY - JOUR
T1 - ARTICULAR CHONDROCALCINOSIS IN A HOSPITAL POPULATION
T2 - AN AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE
AU - GORDON, T. P.
AU - SMITH, M.
AU - EBERT, B.
AU - McCREDIE, M.
AU - BROOKS, P. M.
PY - 1984/10
Y1 - 1984/10
N2 - A group of hospital patients aged 55 years or over (53 men, 74 women) were screened for articular chondrocalcinosis (ACC) with high‐resolution radiographs of knees, wrists, hands and pelvis. Two men (4%) aged 79 and 86 years had ACC involving knees, wrists and symphysis pubis. Both had clinical joint disease and radiological osteoarthritis (OA). Eighteen women (24%) had ACC with sites affected including the knees (89%), wrists (39%) and symphysis pubis (44%). Metabolic screening did not reveal any predisposing factors in patients with ACC. Symptoms and signs of joint disease were not significantly more common in women with ACC compared to those without ACC, and 44% of those with knee calcification were clinically asymptomatic and had no evidence of OA radiologically. However, the presence of knee ACC significantly increased the risk for OA in the same knee by a factor of three‐to‐four while knee calcification was associated with the more severe grades of radiographic OA.
AB - A group of hospital patients aged 55 years or over (53 men, 74 women) were screened for articular chondrocalcinosis (ACC) with high‐resolution radiographs of knees, wrists, hands and pelvis. Two men (4%) aged 79 and 86 years had ACC involving knees, wrists and symphysis pubis. Both had clinical joint disease and radiological osteoarthritis (OA). Eighteen women (24%) had ACC with sites affected including the knees (89%), wrists (39%) and symphysis pubis (44%). Metabolic screening did not reveal any predisposing factors in patients with ACC. Symptoms and signs of joint disease were not significantly more common in women with ACC compared to those without ACC, and 44% of those with knee calcification were clinically asymptomatic and had no evidence of OA radiologically. However, the presence of knee ACC significantly increased the risk for OA in the same knee by a factor of three‐to‐four while knee calcification was associated with the more severe grades of radiographic OA.
KW - Articular chondrocalcinosis
KW - osteoarthritis
KW - prevalence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0021670341&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1984.tb05019.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1984.tb05019.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 6597711
AN - SCOPUS:0021670341
VL - 14
SP - 655
EP - 659
JO - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
JF - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
SN - 0004-8291
IS - 5
ER -