background :to estimate the prevalence and characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis (ra) in an urban area of tehran.   methods : a total of 50 clusters were randomly selected in tehran and 10291 subjects completed the copcord core questionnaire during 2004 and 2005. patients with rheumatic complaints were examined and diagnosed by subspecialty fellows in rheumatology. laboratory and radiology te...

adjuvant induced arthritis is a chronic crippling, skeleton-muscular disorder having nearest approximation to human rheumatoid arthritis for which there is currently no medicine available effecting a permanent cure. even modern drugs used for the amelioration of the symptoms, offer only temporary relief and also produce severe side effects. in the indigenous system of medicine, wood of premna s...

there are controversial reports regarding the role of peptidylarginine deiminase type 4 (padi4) gene polymorphisms and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (ra). the aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of padi4 rs1748033 polymorphism and susceptibility to ra in a sample of the iranian population.this case-control study was done on 150 patients with ra and 150 healthy subjects.padi4 r...

conclusions the detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis is always an important differential diagnosis for skin and soft tissue involvement in endemic areas. the cold abscess is an uncommon form of cutaneous tuberculosis that can be single or multiple and with or without fistula. case presentation the case was a 42-year-old female, a known case of rheumatoid arthritis that was receiving predniso...

rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis

background sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease affecting different organs with different frequency rates depending on geographical location. musculoskeletal abnormalities includes osseous lesions (small and large bone sarcoidosis), sarcoidal arthropathy, and sarcoidal myopathy. musculoskeletal involvement is reported in a significant number of patients. objectives this study aimed to determine...

3450 bovine from different breeds and ages were clinically examined for the presence of arthritis. 120 cases showed macroscopic evidences of arthritis. mycoplasma spp were isolated from synovial fluid of 21 affected animals. in addition to mycoplasma spp. arcanobacterium pyogenes and staphylococcus epidermidis were isolated from 2 cases. the synovial fluid was markedly increased, straw color, t...

Background: The relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and poor oral hygiene has longbeen proven. Colonization of Porphyromonas gingivalis in the oral cavity can play an important role in rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between rheumatoid arthritis disease and the presence of P. gingivalis. <stro...

Here in this paper, we report a 31-year-old case admitted with symptoms of hyperthyroidism that was then diagnosed with Grave's disease (GD) and underwent treatments with a low dosage of methimazole (10 mg/day). 20 days after treatments initiations, she developed antithyroid arthritis syndrome. This patient experienced arthritis and arthralgia in at least 4 joints. And all autoimmune and microb...