Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease

Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate disease
Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate disease
Other names	Pseudogout
	Polarized light microscopy of CPPD, showing rhombus-shaped calcium pyrophosphate crystals with positive birefringence.

Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystal deposition disease, also known as pseudogout and pyrophosphate arthropathy, is a rheumatologic disease which is thought to be secondary to abnormal accumulation of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals within joint soft tissues.^[1] The knee joint is most commonly affected.^[2] The disease is metabolic in origin and its treatment remains symptomatic.^[3]

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^ Abhishek A, Doherty M (2016). "Update on calcium pyrophosphate deposition". Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology. 34 (4 Suppl 98): 32–38. PMID 27586801.

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