psoriatic arthritis). Those with no hand radiographs or missing radiographic data were also excluded. The sample was enriched from an identically performed survey in a similar population to increase ...

persistent arthritis, and ultimately erosive gout. The goal of managing gout is to use urate-lowering treatment (ULT) to completely dissolve MSU crystals, enabling flare-free gout remission. Since ...

Abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease that affects and potentially destroys the joints of the appendicular skeleton. The precise and reproducible quantification of the progression ...

So it’s a common condition, but there are great options for treatment. Can you explain the difference between erosive and non-erosive GERD? GERD itself is gastroesophageal reflux disease ...

This spectrum includes arthralgia; nondeforming nonerosive arthritis (NDNE: 80–85%); radiologically nonerosive deforming arthropathy, known as Jaccoud’s arthropathy (3–13%); and erosive arthritis, ...

chikungunya virus infection (diagnosed 7 years earlier); seropositive erosive rheumatoid arthritis affecting the hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders (diagnosed 3 years earlier); vitiligo ...

Patients with gout and tophi were divided into a bone erosion group (n ... and treatment of tophi is important to prevent the formation of bone erosions. Finally, a greater proportion of patients in ...

Surgery is rarely needed to treat gout in the thumb, but it may be needed if joint damage related to tophi occurs. Ian Jason M, Muramatsu K, Tani Y, Kobayashi M. Atypical erosive tophaceous gout with ...

Recent research, however, suggests that people with erosive hand arthritis have other issues as well. Overall, their bones are thinner and they lose bone and cartilage as the condition progresses ...

Conclusion IL-6 levels were significantly elevated in men, weaned smokers and patients with bone erosions. In the era of biotherapies and similar biologics, this study shows that anti-IL-6s have a ...

Erosive osteoarthritis (EOA ... which rarely feel the effects of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). For example, RA often affects the knuckle joints, which EOA does not impact, while the middle finger ...

"Gout is an erosive arthritis, and every time someone flares, there's a risk of permanent erosive damage, so I tend to be more aggressive with prophylaxis," she said. The study was funded by the ...