to determine the rate of different types of arthritis in children. we prepared a retrospective descriptive study and included the whole 100 cases of arthritis referred to 17-shahrivar hospital, rasht, guilan during a 3 years period. using their medical files, data including age, sex, season of admission, history of trauma, signs and symptoms, lab findings and duration of hospitalization were co...

background: this study aimed to compare the percentage of detection of periarthritis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using clinical examination and ultrasound methods. materials and methods: this study is a cross?sectional study which was conducted in al?zahra hospital (isfahan, iran) during 2014–2015. in our study, ninety patients were selected based on the american college of rheumatolo...

A number of patients with inflammatory arthritis due to inadequate clinical or laboratory data do not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a clinical disease categories. These patients with initial diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) may remit or progress to a definite well- defined condition such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or remain as UA with persistence of inflammatory arthritis. The m...

Background: Previous studies showed that one of the complications of rheumatoid arthritis disease was auditory disorder. The goal of the present study was to compare the auditory status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy individuals. Methods: In the present case-control study, 30 normal persons and 60 persons with rheumatoid arthritis with mean age of 46.72 and standard deviatio...

background and objectives: the cause and pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis has not been fully understood and an experimental model of this disease is essential for research on the problem. in this research study, establishment and histopathological changes of chronic arthritis due to intra-articular antigen injection was used as a model of experimental rheumatoid arthritis. materials and ...

conclusions according to the results of these work-ups, xla was diagnosed for the cases. introduction x-linked agammaglobulinemia (xla) is one of the primary humoral immunodeficiencies. it usually presents symptoms of recurrent infections, but in some unusual cases it may present rheumatologic manifestations. case presentation the current paper presents the cases of two boys with arthritis trea...

conclusions this phenomenon has been reported as a rare complication of septic arthritis and osteomyelitis. treatment of these patients is controversial and the long term results are unknown but efforts must be done for early diagnosis and anatomic reduction of femoral epiphysis. introduction slipped capital femoral epiphysis (scfe) is one of the complications of septic arthritis that occurs ra...