ELSEVIERBrocklehursts Textbook of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology
Joint disorders are common in the elderly population. Commonest conditions are rheumatoid arthritis, osteo-arthritis and crystal induced arthritis. Comorbid events in the elderly patients make disease management even more difficult. Some tests are needed to distinguish these conditions from more serious ...
It has important clinical consequences in the diagnosis of disease in the elderly with risk of both underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis. The increasing number of elderly, the high prevalence and the specific diagnostic and therapeutic problems of rheumatic disorders in the elderly call for some ...
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, complex disease of yet unknownpathogenesis with genetic and environmental infl uences. This articledeals with the disease characteristics specifi cally related to old ageincluding its clinical picture, diagnosis and tre
Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyRheumatoid arthritis in the elderly - Nesher, TL, et al. - 1991Nesher G,Moore T,Zuckner J. Rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly[J].American Ceramic Society,1991.284.Nesher, G, Moore, TL, Zuckner, J (1991) Rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly. ...
Rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly: is it a different disease? Am J Med. 1997 Dec 29;103(6A):40-8S.[Abstract] 7. Yazici Y, Paget SA. Elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis. Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2000 Aug;26(3):517-26.[Abstract] 8. Cojocaru M, Cojocaru IM, Silosi I, et al. ...
Elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis (EORA), defined as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with onset at age 60 years or over, differs slightly from younger-onset RA ... DDV Schaardenburg - 《Drugs & Aging》 被引量: 91发表: 1995年 Rheumatoid arthritis in the elderly: Is it a different disease? Con...
Greek patients with LORAS appear not to have differences in comparison to their younger counterparts. Disease modifying drugs and low doses of prednisone are the mainstream of therapy with need for further caution in the aged group. 展开 关键词: Late-onset rheumatoid arthritis Elderly ...
Optimal management of all RA patients includes physical therapy, medications, both nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and remittive agents, and, in some cases, surgery. In the elderly, these treatment modalities at times need to be altered to accommodate age-related changes in body mec...
The age and sex patterns observed in our study were consistent with the findings of GBD 2017, which reported that globally females and individuals aged 70–74, had the highest burden of RA11. These findings highlight the importance of targeting females and the elderly with primary and secondary...