Catalog

Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate deposition disease

FA26.0

Link to WHO Definition

Calcium pyrophosphate dehydrate deposition disease – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/845625980

Familial calcium pyrophosphate deposition is a chronic inherited arthropathy characterised by chondrocalcinosis (cartilage calcification), often associated with recurrent acute calcium pyrophosphate crystal arthritis and polyarticular osteoarthritis.

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