It's most often associated with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but some viral infections can also ...
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 ...
In this trial, patients who presented with inflammatory polyarthritis (defined as ... When looking at preventing the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the most common and most problematic ...
A prospective single-center study has found a correlation between levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) measured at the time of diagnosis of inflammatory polyarthritis (IP) and death from ...
Rheumatoid factor is felt to be less useful ... especially when PMR presents with peripheral arthritis in the small joints. Furthermore, PMR symptoms can coexist in RA patients, which occurs ...