Psoriatic arthritis has been known to cause many inflammatory clinical features, including synovitis. In the past, synovitis primarily treated with NSAIDs, corticosteroid injections, and synovectomy when needed. This report outlines a 49-year-old female caused by psoriatic who did not respond conventional treatment options was apprehensive surgery. She offered platelet rich plasma (PRP) injecti...

The state of 36 knee joints of 32 rheumatic patients was evaluated after surgical synovectomy, the follow-up period varying from 2 to 39 months. Synovitis was suspected by arthroscopy in 67% and verified histologically in 52%, although in a milder form than at the time of synovectomy. The regenerated synovial tissue was less permeable to serum proteins and contained lower activities of lysosoma...

This paper reports a case of diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis (DPVNS), associated with advanced gonarthrosis, submitted to total knee replacement. The patient had progressive pain and swelling. She had two previous surgeries, firstly arthroscopic synovectomy and subsequently open synovectomy associated with radiotherapy, with recurrence of the disease. Magnetic resonance imaging reveale...

Studies published in MEDLINE between January 2010 and October 2013 were reviewed to compare open with arthroscopic synovectomy for pigmented villonodular synovitis of the knee in terms of rates of recurrence, complication, and osteoarthritis. 10 studies specifically on this topic were analysed; all were retrospective case reports, and thus level of evidence was low. Respectively after open and ...

The wrist is the most commonly involved region of the upper extremity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Because the wrist joint becomes involved early during the disease course and its involvement rapidly progresses, and because the disabilities associated with progressive RA are significant, early and adequate treatment must be introduced to prevent disease progression. Various treatment methods c...

Arthropathy is a serious and common problem in patients with hemophilia impairing the patient’s quality of life seriously. The most commonly affected joints hemophilic arthropathy are knees, ankles elbows. Even single bleeding could cause devastating effects to synovium, cartilage also subchondral bones. Ultrasound magnetic resonance imaging have been advocated for studying damage. Prophylaxis ...

The aim of this study was to examine the indication for total synovectomy of the hip in juvenile chronic arthritis. For this purpose, five children with six treated hips were followed up. At the time of synovectomy all patients were suffering from therapy resistance and progressive destructive coxitis, as a result of juvenile chronic arthritis. The procedure carried out must, consequently, be r...

OBJECTIVE To consider the question: How strong is the evidence in favour of yttrium synovectomy in chronic knee arthritis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in comparison with placebo and intra-articular steroid treatment? METHODS A systematic review of the literature was performed using Medline and the Embase database. RESULTS Initially, seven papers were identified, but only two met th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Synovectomy is an effective procedure for management of the rheumatoid elbow at radiographically early stages (Larsen grades 1 and 2). However, its efficacy for advanced stages (Larsen grades 3-5) is controversial. We investigated the outcome of synovectomy for advanced stages of the rheumatoid elbow. METHODS Between May 1985 and September 1994, synovectomy was performe...

In this long term retrospective study of radiation synovectomy with Yttrium-90 (Y90), we evaluated the results of 164 applications in 82 patients with RA, OA with synovitis, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis. Radiation synovectomy with Y90 has an overall success rate of approximately 50% and is therefore an effective alternative to surgical synovectomy in chronic synovitis which fa...