Voorbeelden van rheumatoid arthritis

• Compared to patients with depression, rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease, the study participants were markedly impaired in both the physical and psychological domains.

• They then begin to inflame the body's own cells, causing diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.

• Overall long-term impact of total hip and knee joint replacement surgery on patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

• All the evidence points to the need for early aggressive treatment of rheumatoid arthritis to ensure a good outcome.

• Alternatively, chronic illness may result in considerable pain, as in the case of rheumatoid arthritis or severe breathlessness, as in the case of respiratory illness.

• The list of disorders which can mimic rheumatic polyarthritis is very long and includes most prominently juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, post viral arthritis, and systemic lupus.

• Evening primrose oil in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and side-effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

• In rheumatoid arthritis the disorder appears to be subclinical and is probably isolated from other peripheral or central nervous system damage.

• All of this achieved in a maledominated world and effectively all of it through the pain and debilitating effects of rheumatoid arthritis.

• For longer-term and resistant cases, diseasemodifying drugs conventionally used in rheumatoid arthritis have been tried as steroid-sparing agents.

• Late onset rheumatoid arthritis: is pitting oedema of the hands at onset a good prognostic indicator?

• An important exception is the great crippler, rheumatoid arthritis.

• What are the implications of this for the future provision of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis?

• All participants had received a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis at least two years previously.

• The conditions range from facial vitiligo through rheumatoid arthritis to quadriplegia.