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Updated: April 30, 2025
A suppurative arthritis, like that caused by ordinary pus microbes, may be the result of gonococcal infection alone or of a mixed infection. Usually only one joint is affected, but the condition may be multiple. The articular cartilages are destroyed, the ends of the bones are covered with granulations, extra-articular abscesses form, and complete osseous ankylosis results.
Startings at night are to be regarded as an indication that there is progressive disease involving the articular surfaces. The formation of extra-articular abscess may take place early, or it may not occur till long after the disease has subsided.
Hughes gives an excellent description of the clinical aspect of arthritis which applies here: Acute arthritis begins like an ordinary attack of synovitis. In joints other than the pedal and pastern, there is sudden and extensive swelling, which at first is intra-articular, succeeded by extra-articular tumefaction, and accompanied by violent lameness. The pain soon becomes intense and agonizing.
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