An interactive tool for real time feedback on diagnosis and treatment plan of arthritis based on C++ programing language

Abstract

Arthritis causes joint inflammation where body’s immunity against disease or injury becomes overactive leading to swelling, pain and stiffness and it also can lead to tissue damage. Anatomically, arthritis usually affects the synovial joints in majority where the articular bones are covered by hyaline cartilages. The clinically significant arthritis are Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Septic arthritis and Juvenile Arthritis which features pain in the joints and typically worsen with age. Since the clinical burden due to arthritis is huge and due to the difficulties in proper differentiation and diagnosis of a particular arthritis, the examiner should determine the nature of the underlying pathologic process. Arthritis can be infectious (infection with Neisseria gonorrhea or Mycobacterium tuberculosis), crystal-induced (gout, pseudo-gout), immune-related [rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematous (SLE)], reactive (rheumatic fever, Reiter's syndrome), or idiopathic. Current project imposes the use of C++ programming language in order to construct an interactive platform for the diagnosis and treatment of Arthritis. Huge amount of work has been done on various diseases to design a platform where on the basis of symptoms, diseases can be treated promptly; however, in the field of arthritis, study is lacking. Briefly, an algorithm was prepared for classifying the types of arthritis based upon the symptoms and signs as obtained from the patient.