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...

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...

A high sensitivity for the detection of inflammatory and destructive changes in inflammatory joint diseases makes magnetic resonance imaging potentially useful for assigning specific diagnoses, such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis in arthritides, that remain undifferentiated after conventional clinical, biochemical and radiographic examinations. With recent data as the starting ...

Background: Cogan’s syndrome is a rare autoimmune vasculitis (less than 300 cases described in the literature) characterized its typical form by cochleovestibular involvement, interstitial keratitis, and an inflammatory involvement of large vessels. It frequently accompanied general signs cardio-vascular, rheumatologic, digestive complications. Its management essentially based on use corticoste...

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...

Recent clinical studies of rheumatoid arthritis reveal that therapeutic intervention early in rheumatoid arthritis leads to less joint damage, indicating the importance of early diagnosis of RA for improvement of prognosis. According to the data of our "Early Arthritis Prospective Cohort", we have found that early arthritis patients, described as undifferentiated arthritis, progress to rheumato...

Under the organization of the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR), the widely applied current classification system for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) was established in 1995 [1] and revised in 1997 [2] and 2001 [3]. The main goal of this new classification of childhood arthritides was to develop criteria that would identify homogeneous groups of children with chro...