CHRONIC RHEUMATIC ARTHRITIS.

The Chronic Rheumatic Diseases with Special Reference to Chronic Arthritis

Arthritis and the Rheumatic Diseases

In this readable book the author talks to the patients, not behind their doctors' backs but in anticipation of what their doctors are going to tell them. Daily routine, food and mental attitude are gone into carefully. The watering places of Europe are mentioned but not given much credit. With this scant appraisal of Carlsbad at least the reviewer is not in agreement. In the pre-World War II pe...

Chronic Rheumatic Endocarditis

development of established endocarditis and symptoms. This is particularly true in pure mitral stenosis where symptoms may not begin until 20 years after the acute attack. Mitral stenosis represents a less severe degree of valve damage than does severe mitral regurgitation or mixed lesions in which the subvalvar apparatus, the chordae and papillary muscles, are involved as well as the valve cus...

Novel Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Arthritis

Rheumatic joint pain (RA) is an unending systemic immune system illness encapsulating aggravation and perpetual harm of the joints. Early treatment in RA is vital as it can anticipate infection movement and irreversible harm of the joints. Powerful finding and treatment of the malady is a test because of its heterogeneity. The flow indicative tests are not adequately exact to describe the infec...

Rheumatic fever and poststreptococcal reactive arthritis.

Rheumatic fever is a catastrophic illness in many parts of the world, particularly in developing nations, where the incidence has been estimated to be between 10 and 15 million new cases each year. In the United States, rheumatic fever had become a rarity, having virtually disappeared by the mid 1960s. Of increasing concern, however, was the abrupt rise in the incidence of rheumatic fever in th...