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 ...

Criteria for RA diagnosis are shown in Table 1. Rheumatoid factor is felt to be less useful in diagnosing RA in this population, as the prevalence of autoantibodies increases with age. Anticyclic ...

Polyarthritis means that five or more joints in your body are affected by arthritis and inflammation. It's most often associated with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but ...

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 ...

In June, 1960, a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis was made ... A case of destructive polyarthritis due to infection by an anonymous mycobacterium is presented. Confirmation of an etiologic ...

In macrophages, DNAse II degrades DNA from engulfed apoptotic cells; results from a mouse study by Kawane et al. suggest that deficiency of this enzyme or failure to completely degrade engulfed ...