Symptoms
-- An indication that a person has a condition or disease. Some examples of symptoms are headache, fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and pain.
Physical findings
-- Objective evidence of disease perceptible to the examining physician.
Complications of treatment
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Inflammation
-- A pathological process characterized by injury or destruction of tissues caused by a variety of cytologic and chemical reactions. It is usually manifested by typical signs of pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function.
Bacterial Infections
-- Infections by bacteria, general or unspecified.
Gonorrhea
-- Acute infectious disease characterized by primary invasion of the urogenital tract. The etiologic agent, NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE, was isolated by Neisser in 1879.
Acute suppurative arthritis due to bacteria
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Arthritis, Bacterial
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Acute Arthritis
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Unspecified Staphylococcus infection in conditions classified elsewhere and of unspecified site
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Chronic disease
-- Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
Communicable Diseases
-- broad class of diseases whose causative agents may be passed between individuals in many different ways.
Infection
-- Invasion of the host organism by microorganisms that can cause pathological conditions or diseases.
Joint Swelling
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Arthralgia
-- Pain in the joint.
Diagnostic radiologic examination
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Plain x-ray
-- An image produced on a radiosensitive surface by x-ray radiation that has penetrated and passed through a structure.
Radiographic imaging procedure
-- Examination of any part of the body for diagnostic purposes by means of X-RAYS or GAMMA RAYS, recording the image on a sensitized surface (such as photographic film).
Pain
-- An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
-- An acquired defect of cellular immunity associated with infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a CD4-positive T-lymphocyte count under 200 cells/microliter or less than 14% of total lymphocytes, and increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and malignant neoplasms. Clinical manifestations also include emaciation (wasting) and dementia. These elements reflect criteria for AIDS as defined by the CDC in 1993.
Pulmonary aspiration
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Degenerative polyarthritis
-- A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.
Disease
-- A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.
Depressive disorder
-- An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent.
Depressive episode, unspecified
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Mental Depression
-- Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.
Weighing patient
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