0 a disease that causes stiffness, swelling, and pain in the joints (= places where two bones are connected) of the body --
The conditions range from facial vitiligo through rheumatoid arthritis to quadriplegia.
All participants had received a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis at least two years previously.
What are the implications of this for the future provision of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis?
An important exception is the great crippler, rheumatoid arthritis.
Late onset rheumatoid arthritis: is pitting oedema of the hands at onset a good prognostic indicator?
For longer-term and resistant cases, diseasemodifying drugs conventionally used in rheumatoid arthritis have been tried as steroid-sparing agents.
All of this achieved in a maledominated world and effectively all of it through the pain and debilitating effects of rheumatoid arthritis.
In rheumatoid arthritis the disorder appears to be subclinical and is probably isolated from other peripheral or central nervous system damage.
