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HAEMOPHILIA
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages 117-121Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2516.2006.01268.x
Keywords
arthropathy; blood; cartilage; haemophilic; synovium
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The pathogenetic mechanism of haemophilic arthropathy is multifactorial and includes degenerative cartilage-mediated and inflammatory synovium-mediated components. Intra-articular blood first has a direct effect on cartilage, as a result of the iron-catalysed formation of destructive oxygen metabolites (resulting in chondrocyte apoptosis), and subsequently affects the synovium, in addition to haemosiderin-induced synovial triggering. Both processes occur in parallel, and while they influence each other they probably do not depend on each other. This concept resembles degenerative joint damage as found in osteoarthritis as well as inflammatory processes in rheumatoid arthritis. These processes finally result in a fibrotic and destroyed joint.
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