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One hundred consecutive patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined for the presence of trochanteric bursitis. This condition was found in 15. Ten patients responded to a single local injection of corticosteroid and the remaining 5 to a second injection. Trochanteric bursitis is an underdiagnosed, easily remediable cause of pain...

Two cases of rupture of lateral cysts which produced symptoms related to the anterolateral lower leg are reported. The difficulty of diagnosing the condition because of this unusual site of inflammation and subsequent management problems are discussed.
Anterolateral rupture of popliteal cysts in rheumatoid arthritis. Kirkham B, Churchill M, Dasgupta B,...

We performed 52 cemented ankle arthroplasties for painful osteoarthritis (OA) (25) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (27) using an ankle prosthesis with a near-anatomical design.
We assessed the patients radiologically and clinically for up to 14 years using an ankle scoring system. The preoperative median scores were 29 for the OA group...

Synovial cysts are commonly found in the knee joint. Hip Joint is an infrequent site for formation of synovial cysts. The features of a large, synovial cyst on magnetic resonance imaging, occurring in the hip joint, are described.
Giant rheumatoid synovial cyst of the hip joint: diagnosed by MRI. Patkar D, Shah...

Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis. SIGN Guideline
SIGN Publication No. 48 ISBN 1899893 37 7 Published December 2000 Highly Reputable

AJR 2003; 181:761-769 Hypointense Synovial Lesions on T2-Weighted Images: Differential Diagnosis with Pathologic Correlation José A. Narváez, Javier Narváez, Raúl Ortega1, Eugenia De Lama1, Yolanda Roca1 and Noemí Vidal
Synovial tissue that lines joint cavities, bursae, and tendinous sheaths is generally too thin to be shown on MRI. However, as synovial tissue thickens...

The wrist is the most commonly involved joint in the upper extremity of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Up to 75% of patients will develop wrist problems during the course of the disease. Cartilage degeneration and synovitis cause the typical skeletal erosions, ligamentous laxity, deformity, and tendon problems seen in the...

K T Lee, S Singh, C H Lai Singapore Med J 2005; 46(12) : 718
Conclusion: Our small study revealed good to excellent short-term outcome with the use of semi-constrained total elbow arthroplasty for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow in Asian patients.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of unknown cause that primarily affects the peripheral joints in a symmetric pattern. Constitutional symptoms, including fatigue, malaise, and morning stiffness, are common. Extra-articular involvement of organs such as the skin, heart, lungs, and eyes can be significant. RA causes joint...

From the 1960’s to the mid 1980’s cemented total hip replacement was the best option for the hip joint severely destroyed by rheumatoid arthritis. Around the early 1980’s several papers reported very good long term survival of the cemented femoral components with some still functioning well at 15 year follow...

The initial presentation of RA is the foot and ankle in 16-19% of cases. In time most patients will develop symptoms in the foot and ankle. The forefoot is more likely to be involved early on the disease than the hindfoot. The midfoot is also involved with radiological changes but...

Arthroscopic synovectomy is still widely practised although there is a lack of rigorous evidence by controlled trials. However, recent studies including a sizeable case series lend further support to its efficacy at a chemical level (immunohistological analyses) and at a functional level (Lysholm scores and Insall scores).
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The shoulder is commonly involved in early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), being eclipsed only by the metacarpophalangeal joint, the proximal interphalangeal joint and the wrist (1). RA causes destruction, discomfort and disability, and although modern medical management will slow disease progression, there remains a potent role for the modern shoulder...

Hepatotoxicity associated with sulfasalazine in inflammatory arthritis: A case series from a local surveillance of serious adverse events Paresh Jobanputra , Roshan Amarasena , Fiona Maggs , Dawn Homer , Simon Bowman , Elizabeth Rankin , Andrew Filer , Karim Raza and Ronald Jubb BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008, 9:48
Conclusions Serious hepatotoxicity...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative condition in which the articular cartilage on the surfaces of the bones that form joints progressively deteriorates. The terms osteoarthrosis and OA are often used interchangeably. Although inflammation is generally absent in this degenerative condition, most physicians commonly refer to it as OA. Hence, this...