A Persistently Red Hot Swollen Knee Medscape

Description: The patient is a 55-year-old woman with a long history of monoarticular arthritis. For a decade she had a waxing and waning red, hot, swollen knee.
She had an extensive negative evaluation for rheumatologic disease, and she was told that she had severe degenerative arthritis. She was maintained for years on intermittent steroid injections and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, but the disability became so severe that she required a knee replacement that needed 2 revisions. She was told that it would fix the problem, but it did not.
A Persistently Red, Hot, Swollen Knee Mark Crislip, MD