Sacroiliitis can be hard to diagnose. It can be mistaken for other causes of low back pain. It's been linked to a group of diseases that cause inflammatory arthritis of the spine. Treatment might involve physical therapy and medicines. ...
Rheumatic fever, a serious inflammatory condition that can affect the heart, joints, nervous system and skin Poststreptococcal reactive arthritis, a condition that causes inflammation of the joints A possible relationship has been suggested between strep infection and a rare condition called pediatric aut...
Mayo Clinic researchers have determined the lifetime risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and six other autoimmune rheumatic diseases for both men and women. The findings appear online in Arthritis and Rheumatism. "We estimated the lifetime risk for rheumatic disease for both sexes, something that...
Hydroxychloroquine is a long-standing preventive and treatment drug for malaria. It also is used to manage and minimize symptoms of inflammatory immune diseases, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. In laboratory tests, hydroxychloroquine can prevent the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 viruses from attach...
The invention involves evaluating arthritis conditions. Specifically, the invention provides methods and materials related to determining the severity of an arthritis condition in a mammal. The term “arthritis condition” as used herein refers to an infective, autoimmune, or traumatic inflammatory conditio...
Translationat research is a key tenet of Mayo Clinic's cardiovascular division with the emphasis on converting the studies conducted through the centre into visible patient benefits.This is underlined by the fact that 90% of those involved in research are clinicians who see patients on a regular ...
digestiveissues including acid reflux, ulcers, chronic constipation or diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, dysbiosis; immune and respiratoryissues such as allergies, asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, cold and flu, including Covid-19, and im...
Such immunological activity can be, without limitation, cytotoxic activity, helper activity, suppressive activity, immune-deviating activity, inflammatory activity, or pro-inflammatory activity.As used herein, an “effector T lymphocyte precursor cell” is a T lymphocyte that, subsequent to activation, ...
Lupus — a chronic inflammatory disease that targets your joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, heart and lungs Rheumatoid arthritis — a chronic inflammatory disease targeting the tissue that lines your joints (synovium) Cancers Lymphoma — cancer that originates in your lymphatic system ...
alcoholic liver disease is still the major cause of liver disease and liver-related death," says Dr. Shah. "Our Mayo Clinic research team will continue to examine other avenues of treatment for alcoholic hepatitis patients -- including examining other anti-inflammatory proteins for study purposes....