osteoporosis (op) is a frequent complication of rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and longitudinal studies have documented increased rate of bone loss in ra patients. to determine the frequency of low bone mass as well as the influence of disease duration and corticosteroid use on bone mass in patients with ra, 88 patients with ra and 112 age matched controls were studied. bone densitometry was perform...

Autoimmune inflammation affects the joints of people with inflammatory arthritis. No definitive cause has been identified, despite extensive research. An environmental trigger in a genetically predisposed individual seems to be the most likely mechanism. About 80-100 adults in 100 000 develop inflammatory arthritis every year. 3 Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common inflammatory arthritis, af...

Objective: To research distribution of etiologies modification of arthritis in Congo-Brazzaville, twenty years after the first reports. Methods: A cross sectional study has been achieved. Medical files of patients admitted for arthritis between 2000 and 2014, in Rheumatology department of Brazzaville university teaching hospital have been included. Among 416 patients listed as cases of arthriti...

purpose: to report bilateral terrien’s marginal degeneration, circumferential peripheral corneal ectasia and posterior polymorphous dystrophy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. case report: a 24-year-old male patient, who was known case of rheumatoid arthritis from 8 years before, presented with decreased vision since four years ago. comprehensive ophthalmic eye exami-nation revealed bilat...

October 12, 2017 is World Arthritis Day (http://www. worldarthritisday.org). First observed in 1996, World Arthritis Day serves as a focus for organizations and individuals to work toward increasing awareness of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions worldwide. In the United States, 54 million adults (1) have some form of arthritis or other rheumatic condition. By 2040, the number of adults w...

October 12, 2017 is World Arthritis Day (http://www. worldarthritisday.org). First observed in 1996, World Arthritis Day serves as a focus for organizations and individuals to work toward increasing awareness of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions worldwide. In the United States, 54 million adults (1) have some form of arthritis or other rheumatic condition. By 2040, the number of adults w...

Purpose. Pseudoseptic arthritis is an acute inflammatory monoarthritis with a sterile synovial gram stain and culture. Pseudoseptic arthritis has been previously described in the literature in a variety of settings including rheumatoid arthritis and microcrystalline disease. Despite pseudoseptic arthritis being a described entity, there is little published data on this topic with no published r...

Previously considered a chronic condition, enthesitis-related arthritis – a type of juvenile idiopathic arthritis – may in some cases represent a sensitivity-related illness and thus respond to antigenic avoidance and remediation of biochemistry. Enthesitis-related arthritis is a rare but serious cause of childhood disability and chronic pain that often leads to continuing complications in adul...

series, Staphylococcus aureus was the primary cause of bacterial arthritis in 40% of cases from England and Wales, 56% of cases from France, and 37% of cases from tropical Australia (panel 1). S aureus cause 80% of joint infections in patients with concurrent rheumatoid arthritis and in those with diabetes. This microbe is also the primary pathogen in hip infections and in polyarticular septic ...

BACKGROUND Arthritis is a gendered disease where women have a higher prevalence and more disability than men with arthritis of the same age. Health survey data is a major source of information for monitoring of the burden of arthritis. The validity of self-reported arthritis and the determinants of its accuracy among women have not been thoroughly studied. The objectives of this study were to: ...