The pathology of the disease process often leads to the destruction of articular cartilage and ankylosis of the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis can also produce diffuse inflammation in the lungs ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common etiology for inflammatory arthritis in the older population, with an estimated prevalence of 2%. An older individual with inflammatory polyarthritis usually ...

Figure 1: Role of TL1A in propagating inflammatory responses in rheumatoid arthritis. Of note, circulating and synovial levels of DcR3 are also increased in patients with RA in comparison with ...

DOCTOR, WE ARE TALKING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. IT’S AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE THAT CAN OFTEN PRESENT WITH A LOT OF JOINT PAIN AND STIFFNESS. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING WITH MORE IS MERCY MEDICAL ...

Monoclonal antibodies are novel therapeutic agents used with great success in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Different parts of the immune system have been targeted by monoclonal ...

PREGNENOLONE (Δ 5-pregnen-3βol-20-one) has recently been recommended as effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. 1–5 Since Cortisone (17 hydroxy-11 dehydrocorticosterone ...