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Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriasis is a common skin disease that is associated with multiple coexisting conditions. The most prevalent coexisting condition, psoriatic arthritis, develops in up to 30% of patients with psoriasis and is characterized by diverse clinical features, often resulting in delayed diagnosis and treatment. Initial reports emphasized a benign course in most patients, but it is now recognized that p…
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The Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a common autoimmune disease that is associated with progressive disability, systemic complications, early death, and socioeconomic costs.1 The cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown, and the prognosis is guarded. However, advances in understanding the pathogenesis of the disease have fostered the development of new therapeutics, with improved outcomes. The current trea…
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Knee osteoarthritis: pathophysiology and current treatment modalities
For decades, multiple attempts to fully understand knee osteoarthritis pathophysiology and natural history have been attempted. Despite the extensive amount of research regarding this topic, there are still marked controversies. This multifactorial condition gets influenced by local, systemic, and external factors and its progression and/or response to treatments widely varies from patient to p…
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Prevention of taxane-associated acute pain syndrome with etoricoxib for patie…
For patients with breast cancer who receive docetaxel chemotherapy, taxane-associated acute pain syndrome (T-APS), considered a form of neural pathology, is a significant clinical problem. We evaluated the effect of prophylactic etoricoxib on T-APS in patients with breast cancer.
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Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder, is associated with an increasing socioeconomic impact owing to the ageing population and mainly affects the diarthrodial joints. Primary OA results from a combination of risk factors, with increasing age and obesity being the most prominent. The concept of the pathophysiology is still evolving, from being viewed as cartilage-limited to a m…
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Post-streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis complicated by gouty arthritis: a…
Gouty arthritis is uncommon in childhood and adolescence. On the other hand, there has been no report of cases with development of gouty arthritis with post-streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (PSAGN) in pediatric patients. Here we report the case of a mildly obese 12-year-old boy with PSAGN complicated by gouty arthritis of the left first metatarsophalangeal joint. On follow-up, it was conf…
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EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthet…
In this article, the 2010 European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (sDMARDs and bDMARDs, respectively) have been updated. The 2013 update has been developed by an international task force, which based its decisions mostly on evidence from three systematic litera…
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Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: 2014 update of the recommendations o…
Reaching the therapeutic target of remission or low-disease activity has improved outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) significantly. The treat-to-target recommendations, formulated in 2010, have provided a basis for implementation of a strategic approach towards this therapeutic goal in routine clinical practice, but these recommendations need to be re-evaluated for appropriaten…
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Inflammation beyond the Joints: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cardiovascular Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), a chronic systemic inflammatory disease which affects approximately 1% of the population, is classically characterized by inflammation and synovitis that leads to cartilage damage and juxta-articular bone destruction. Accumulating evidence indicates that a major cause of death among RA patients is Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD), in excess of that in the general population
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Reiter's syndrome and reactive arthritis in perspective
Reiter's syndrome or disease is a well-recognized condition. It is now some 40 years since Bauer and Engleman proposed that the concurrence of a polyarthritis or monoarthritis, nongonbocolklal urethritis, and ocular inflmmation should be regarded as a chracterirstic clinical syndrome
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