Britain today live with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Unlike osteoarthritis (OA), RA is caused not by wear and tear but by the ...

A new groundbreaking study by researchers from University of Birmingham, UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital has revealed important clues into what is driving disease ...

A new study by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reveals that joint tissue from patients with ...

Long-term follow-up data show that the preventive effects of short-term treatment with abatacept disappear after 4-5 years.

In addition, the proportion of TKA performed for RA was 21% when assessed in 1991 [18] and is now 2.41–3.4%. [15–16, 19–21] Although up to 13% of arthroplasty recipients were diagnosed with ...

Objective: To evaluate a low field dedicated extremity MRI unit for detection of bone erosions, synovitis, and bone marrow oedema in wrist and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints, with a high field MRI ...

Abstract Six patients with post-traumatic distal radioulnar joint dorsal instability were treated with dorsal capsular reconstruction. This new technique of reconstruction requires less extensive ...

Bilateral asymptomatic fibrous-ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint associated with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report Carolina Ortigosa CunhaI; Lívia Maria Sales PintoI; Luana Menezes de ...

Moderate to severe hand osteoarthritis is estimated to occur in 5–8% Caucasian adults above the age of 60 years. 1 2 Similar data have been reported in the USA. 3 In this population, marked ...

Background: In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) different joints were shown to share the same dominant T-cell clones, suggesting shared characteristics of the inflammatory process and ...

It may affect other parts of the body if caused by systemic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. In short, acute joint pain is a warning sign your body needs help, and delaying treatment can make ...