purpose : the main ocular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis is dry eye. lacritin is a secreted glycoprotein of tear and when applied topically in rabbits, it increased the volume of basal tear secretion. so the aim of this study was to compare lacritin level in rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and control group. methods : this cross-sectional study was done on 40 patients with ra and 48 healthy su...

rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is an inflammatory progressive disease which in the absence of appropriate treatment can lead to joint destruction and disability. prognosis of ra may be predicted based on the presence of some clinical and laboratory evidences.new criteria for classification of ra provides opportunity for earlier treatment. initiation of treatment particularly by combination of dmards...

Background: Microvascular changes are one of the first obvious steps in numerous inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Nailfold video capillaroscopy (NFC) is an easy, reliable and safe method for evaluating peripheral microangiopathy. The objective of this study was to examine nailfold microcirculation in RA patients, assess morphological and structural changes quantitatively...

Methotrexate is an anti-rheumatic agent used as a first-line tretment for rheumatoid arthritis. Hematological malignancies like lymphoma or acute myeloid leukemia have been reported to be secondary to treatment with Methotrexate, but are very uncommon. We report here the first Moroccan case of RA patient on low dose MTX, who developed AML. We also reviewed all similar cases.

a1 Antitrypsin phenotypes were determined by isoelectric focusing in 225 adult white patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 60 patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (grade III and IV), 17 sibling pairs-HLA identical but discordant for rheumatoid arthritis, and 122 random patients with Sjogren's syndrome. No significant increase in non-M phenotypes was found in either of the groups of pati...

The prognosis of patients with recent onset arthritis may vary from self-limiting disease to severe destructive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In order to improve outcomes, a great deal of effort has been put into applying a diagnosis that will allow rapid initiation of treatment. The diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) for these patients as well as the new ACR-EULAR 2010 criteria for rheu...

introduction: some of the studies have shown that ra (rheumatoid arthritis) may cause hearing disorders. these disorders can result in problems later in life, so survey of correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and hearing disorders is important . methods: this was a case-control study which has done from december 2004 to august 2006 at shaheed sadoughi hospital in yazd. in this study, 50 rhe...