diagnosisarthritis outcomeEarly diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an important challenge for clinical rheumatologists. This is because there is substantial evidence that early treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs leads to a better disease outcome. The 1987 American College of ...
Early rheumatoid arthritis As there is no standard definition of early RA, it is best defined as “the earlier, the better.” While the diagnosis of RA can be suspected with as little as 2 to 4 weeks of joint pain, 6 weeks of demonstrable synovitis in multiple joints confirms the “chron...
Rheumatoid arthritis: diagnosis and management. Accurate diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis may be difficult early in its course and demands high clinical suspicion, astute examination, and appropriate in... Vikas Majithia a b ,SAG A - 《Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association》 被引量: ...
bioengineered soluble receptor fusion protein that blocks tumor necrosis factor activity, is the first compound in this class to be approved for treatment of patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis. Therapeutic trials indicate that etanercept can reduce disease activity with relatively few drug-related...
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Early diagnosis and treatment outcomes Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory progressive disease which in the absence of appropriate treatment can lead to joint destruction and disability... B Heidari - 《Caspian J Intern Med》 被引量: 35发表: 2011年 Early referral, ...
This session will discuss the role of citrullination in RA, the evolution of anti-CCP assays, and the search for antibodies to individual citrullinated proteins which may be used to complement anti-CCP in the diagnosis and management of RA. The utility of antibody to the mutated version of ...
Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is mainly based on clinical criteria of symmetric polyarthritis of the hands and feet, with morning stiffness lasting usually more than 1 h. Autoantibodies typical for RA, i.e., rheumatoid factors and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide, and measurements of ...
We have described five patients who had early diagnosis and successful treatment with systemic corticosteroids and/or corticosteroid injection of the cricoarytenoid joint.关键词: Cricoid Cartilage Humans Arthritis, Rheumatoid Laryngeal Diseases Prednisone Dexamethasone Triamcinolone Acetonide Injections, Intra-...
Demographic and clinical data was recorded at screening in face‐to‐face interviews and included age, gender, type of RA medication and date of RA diagnosis. 260 participants completed both screening and baseline visits as part of the RESIST longitudinal study, MoCA scores from baseline were ...
RM Hartley,MH Liang,KE Cullen - 《Arthritis & Rheumatism》 被引量: 75发表: 2010年 Time to treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: factors associated with time to treatment initiation and urgent triage assessment of general practitioner referr... BACKGROUND: The importance of early diagnosis and treatmen...