About 15% of people who have inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, also have enteropathic arthritis, which is linked with gastrointestinal inflammation, says Themistocles Dassopoulos, MD, Medical Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Baylor University Medical Center.
Hay dos tipos principales de artritis enteropática:
- Peripheral arthritis generally affects large peripheral joints, such as elbows, shoulders, knees and ankles. Unlike Osteoartritis
and rheumatoid arthritis, this arthritis doesn’t lead to joint deformities, but it can cause severe joint pain, swelling and redness.
- Central arthritis affects the spine and the sacroiliac joints—between the base of the spine and the pelvis—and can lead to spinal fusion.
Debido a que los medicamentos antiinflamatorios no esteroides (como la aspirina y el ibuprofeno) pueden empeorar la inflamación intestinal, el paracetamol es una mejor opción para aliviar el dolor en las articulaciones.
Junto con la artritis, las enfermedades inflamatorias intestinales están relacionadas con enfermedades autoinmunes de órganos como los ojos, el hígado y la piel.