Crohn’s Disease Arthritis
According to estimates, Crohn’s disease arthritis is believed to affect as many as twenty-six percent of patients that reported having a disorder in their guts and when such a condition affects a person, areas that are most affected include the ankles and knees, less than five joints and it can also occur at the same time as a flare-up of Crohn’s disease and then lasts for as long as ten weeks before improvement is noticed.
Polyarticular arthritis
There is also another form of Crohn’s disease arthritis and that is the rather rarer instance of polyarticular arthritis that closely resembles rheumatoid arthritis and it can affect a patient in the long term and often remains unaffected by bowel disease. To be sure, Crohn’s disease arthritis can also take the form of spinal arthritis and also sacroiliac arthritis that can often not be differentiated from spondylitis (ankylosing). Read more about Crohn’s Disease Arthritis →