ALLMedicine™ Rheumatoid Factor Center

Jun 25th, 2022 - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder which mainly affects small joints, occurs most commonly in middle-aged adults, and can be fatal in severe cases. The exact etiology of RA remains unknown. However, uncontrolled ...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Felty syndrome (FS), which was first described in 1924, is a potentially serious condition that is associated with seropositive (rheumatoid factor [RF]–positive) rheumatoid arthritis (RA). [1, 2] FS is characterized by the clas...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Felty syndrome (FS), which was first described in 1924, is a potentially serious condition that is associated with seropositive (rheumatoid factor [RF]–positive) rheumatoid arthritis (RA).[1, 2] FS is characterized by the class...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Felty syndrome (FS), which was first described in 1924, is a potentially serious condition that is associated with seropositive (rheumatoid factor [RF]–positive) rheumatoid arthritis (RA). [1, 2] FS is characterized by the clas...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the consensual 1st line conventional synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARD) of RA is methotrexate (MTX) (1). In case of contra-indication or intolerance to MTX, leflunomide is an alternative. If the...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the consensual 1st line conventional synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARD) of RA is methotrexate (MTX) (1). In case of contra-indication or intolerance to MTX, leflunomide is an alternative. If the...

May 25th, 2022 - Inflammatory polyarthritides are major causes of invalidity and morbidity. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common and most severe of these diseases, is clearly more effective when initiated early using aggressive therapeutic proto...

May 9th, 2022 - 3. OBJECTIVES The objectives are to (1) detect ILD within a population of early RA and (2) identify potential predictive factors of the development of ILD. 4. METHODS The study is held in the Rheumatology, Pneumology and Radiology departments of t...

May 9th, 2022 - The investigator plans to enroll 80 participants with RA and 30 non-RA controls between the ages of 35 and 65 between August 2015 and December 2018 (arm-1). The investigator plan to perform a needle muscle biopsy in a subset of participants who ag...

Jan 28th, 2022 - Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous inflammatory rheumatologic disorder characterized by inflammatory arthritis, enthesitis, dactylitis and spondylitis, affecting 6% to 39% of the patients suffering from psoriasis. The exact prevalence of...

May 19th, 2022 - On the basis of history and presentation, this patient's psoriatic disease has probably evolved to psoriatic arthritis mutilans (PAM). PAM is considered the most severe form of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), causing joint destruction and functional di.

Apr 11th, 2022 - The Diagnosis: Perforating Rheumatoid Nodule Perforating rheumatoid nodule (RN) is a variant of RN that demonstrates necrobiotic material extruding through the epidermis via the process of transepidermal elimination. 1 The necrobiotic material cont.

Mar 9th, 2022 - Although psoriatic arthritis is not the only disease associated with dactylitis — other culprits are sarcoidosis, septic arthritis, tuberculosis, and gout — dactylitis is one of the characteristic symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. Dactylitis is see.

Dec 30th, 2021 - Bilateral wrist pain with associated swelling consistent with synovitis pointed to an inflammatory arthritis confirmed by x-ray imaging. An elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (109 mm/hr), rheumatoid factor (314 IU/mL), and cyclic citrullinate.

Dec 16th, 2021 - Identification of pulmonary nodules in older adults who smoke immediately brings concern for malignancy in the mind of clinicians. This is particularly the case in patients with significant smoking history.