94. Psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or both?

Comparing bone mineral density in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis

Background: Changes in patients’ bone mineral density (BMD) is one of the problems in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, which can be due to the use of corticosteroid drugs to reduce patients' symptoms or due to the aging process in patients. In this study, we decided to compare BMD in patients with psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Methods: This study as a cross-sectional descrip...

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis

Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis

Rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic symmetric polyarthritis? A difficult differential diagnosis.

Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, or psoriatic disease?

In this issue of The Journal, Madland, et al report results of a 2 week pilot study on a dietary supplementation with seal oil compared to soy oil in patients with psoriatic polyarthritis1. Despite its short duration, several results of this research are significant. Mainly, 4 weeks after the treatment, subjects taking seal oil dietary supplementation reported improvement in patient’s global as...

Clinical remission in rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.

It is currently recognised that remission can be an achievable target for several rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients by a treat-to-target approach. For RA different remission criteria have been proposed, depending on the disease activity scores used, on the importance given to the inclusion of patients' perspective into the definition of remission, and on their app...