What is the likely diagnosis for the patient ? Describe the likely changes in the patient's right knee and their underlying mechanistic causes. What might be a potential treatment and/or management for the patient ?
Musculoskeletal System
The musculoskeletal system, also called the locomotor system, is an organ system that gives humans and animals the ability to move using their muscular and skeletal systems. It provides stability, form, support, and movement to the body. The skeleton is composed of bones (skeleton), muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue that supports and binds tissues and organs together. The musculoskeletal system is subdivided into two broad systems, such as the muscular system and the skeletal system.
Skeletal structure
The skeletal system is the core framework of the human body. The skeletal structure comprises bones and connective tissue, including cartilage, ligaments, and tendons. The skeletal structure of our body acts as a support structure. It maintains the body's shape and is responsible for its movement, blood cell formation, protection of organs, and mineral storage. The skeletal system is referred to as the musculoskeletal system.
What is the likely diagnosis for the patient ? Describe the likely changes in the patient's right knee and their underlying mechanistic causes. What might be a potential treatment and/or management for the patient ? Answers must be in written sentence form. No bullet points are allowed..
![A 65-year-old female (BMI=27, mild obesity) was examined for limited use of her right knee together
with increasing levels of right knee pain after walking over the last 12 months. She could only walk with a
walking aide. She had difficulty standing from a seated position. Because of the pain, she had reduced
her overall activity which had led to significant weight gain over the last 12 months. The joint was visibly
enlarged and and felt hard to touch. The patient was both Rheumatoid factor- and ACPA-negative.
Imaging of the patient's right knee (shown on the right below) indicated that the joint space was
significantly narrowed and the cartilage had been eroded when compared to the normal control (shown
on the left).
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